Podcasts about daily specials

  I have done pretty much everything in order to keep my weight from declining. I can't consume much, but visiting new bakeries with Tom's mother has been exciting! It's something I look forward to, when needing to travel out of state. I used to do something similar, during my first initial oncology treatments. There was a Cupcake Bakery, that I would visit after leaving the hospital. They had new flavors, that were considered the Daily Specials. It was something HAPPY, during an overall pretty scary time in my life. After dropping her off back home, I tried the baseless cheesecake with a touch of lemon, berries, chocolate shavings and whipped cream. Homemade baked goods, when placed in the correct containers, will freeze exceptionally well!

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Georgia Court of Appeals granted review of the decision to leave Fani Willis as a prosecutor on the case.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Michigan man has been charged for making explosives to target the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts; responding to a disturbance call, Florida deputies burst into the wrong apartment and fatally shot a Black US airman; and, a federal judge ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where another German politician was violently attacked by a right wing extremist that required treatment at a Berlin hospital; and, Mexico was hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “it's Trump's House of Representatives and Kevin McCarthy is just living in it.”Then, on the rest of the menu, for years the mayor of an Oregon Coast city has posted racist, homophobic and violent memes on a Facebook group for law enforcement; a federal judge found Washington state in contempt for not providing services to mentally ill people in jails; and, with pregnancy-related deaths soaring in the state and across the nation, Idaho disbanded its Maternal Mortality Review Committee.(we had a small emergency before we to Precious for her eye appointment and were not able to do a Chef's Table.

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, rather than being held accountable, Trump has consistently been protected and rewarded.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor near Playa del Rey, California has spared the Pacific from hundreds of thousands of pounds of garbage during the recent storms; the effort to recall the first woman mayor of New Orleans has failed; and, Oregon lawmakers are poised to pass a sweeping $200 million housing and homelessness package.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Kenyan judge temporarily blocked the mass layoff of Facebook moderators in the country; and, Google suspended a Chinese shopping app amid security concerns.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Pence ‘embarrassed himself' with his defense of Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and ground crews; New York Community Bank has agreed to buy a significant chunk of the failed Signature Bank in a $2.7 billion deal; and, Minnesota regulators say that a nuclear power plant leak four weeks ago didn't require public notice.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Australian fintech firm Latitude Group said it had taken its platforms offline as the cyberattack detected last week remained active; and, justice ministers from around the world will meet in London to build support for the International Criminal Court after it issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia ChildShow Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, McCarthy is willing to sacrifice the security of Congress to curry favor with MAGA and Fox.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon will halt electric vehicle rebates for one year beginning in May, due to high demand and dwindling funds; Michigan added LGBTQ protections to the state's civil rights law; and, California will transform the infamous San Quinten prison into a lockup where less-dangerous prisoners will receive education, training and rehabilitation.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Guatemala arrested another former prosecutor, the latest in a series of detentions seen as weakening anti-corruption efforts in the country; and, Tanzania's first woman president is on her first official visit to South Africa.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”― Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, how long until Trump's lawyers turn on Trump, again?Then, on the rest of the menu, the Michigan Senate voted to repeal the 2012 law restricting unions; Mississippi will restrict electric vehicle manufacturers from selling cars in person unless they open franchised dealerships; and, Ohio State asked the Supreme Court to hear Title IX issues in the sexual abuse suits Jim Jordan helped cover up.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Dutch voters go to the polls today in local elections that have a national impact; and, a "mafia-style" assault on a state-employed archaeologist by commercial development interests has triggered protests in Greece.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the ‘Weaponization' Committee wants to be Benghazi 2.0.Then, on the rest of the menu, Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker should return the $3.6 million in company stock he dumped just days before the bank's collapse; Houston has joined other Democratic cities around the country fighting takeovers by Republican state legislatures; and, your Girl Scout cookie delivery is crumbling under supply chain woes and a labor shortage.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where oil giant Saudi Aramco announced a historic $161 billion dollar profit in 2022 like it was a good thing; and, Russia added the World Wildlife Fund to its register of foreign agents.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerShow Notes & Links"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia Child

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Trump is going to be criminally charged, it will be this year.On the rest of the menu, House Republicans opened a new attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; a backlash by powerful national business groups is pushing conservative Republicans to weaken their anti-ESG proposals; and, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulators are turning up the heat on Tesla.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Egypt's inflation has spiked again, hiking prices of basic food items; and, Georgia's governing party is withdrawing a foreign agents law that opponents warned would usher in Russian-style repression.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerShow Notes & Links“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” - Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the former lead investigator of J6 committee finds the House GOP probe into the committee 'ironic.'Then, on the rest of the menu, The Justice Department issued a blistering report of an extensive federal investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department; hackers may have gained access to the sensitive personal data of House and Senate members, their employees and families in a breach of a Washington, DC, health insurance marketplace; and, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to California tribes, and the university is still discovering more ancestral remains.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where women are enlisting in Colombia's army for first time in twenty-five years; and, leading women's rights campaigners criticized male-dominated governments for excluding women from peace negotiations.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, smoking gun evidence rocks Fox News.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ruled that a Missouri law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws is unconstitutional and void; the National Transportation Safety Board opened probes of Norfolk Southern rail accidents; and, US health officials are recalling two more eye drop brands due to contamination that could lead to vision problems and serious injury.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where German police have disrupted a ransomware cybercrime gang tied to Russia, that has been blackmailing large companies and institutions for years; and, Chinese ships have cut the internet of Taiwan's outlying islands.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP Oversight Committee chair is leaning hard into far-right conspiracies.Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA has mandated the states report on cybersecurity threats to its water systems; Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs won't proceed with an execution set by the state supreme court; and, the Interior Department will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a crisis over poisonings that are targeting Iranian schoolgirls, escalated as authorities acknowledged over fifty schools were struck; and, Hong Kong police stopped activists from joining a women's march.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia ChildShow Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Merrick Garland faced the Senate Judiciary Committee just as reports surfaced that FBI agents and prosecutors argued over how to handle the Trump Mar-A-Lago search.Then, on the rest of the menu, Starbucks committed “egregious and widespread” violations of federal labor law while trying to halt union campaigns; a Fox News-saturated red California county has dumped its Dominion voting machines; and, Robert Kennedy assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was denied parole for the sixteenth time.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Hyundai was poised to become Tesla's top contender, then the US government blindsided it; and, Britain's Royal Navy seized Iranian weapons, including anti-tank guided missiles, from a smuggler's vessel in international waters in the Gulf of Oman.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerShow Notes & Links“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Murdoch's ‘Wu Tang' defense could go up in smoke.On the rest of the menu, Southern California's snow-stranded mountain residents need food, plows and help; a man who spent more than thirty-eight years behind bars for a 1983 murder he did not commit was declared innocent; and, two Kansas men were arrested on charges of selling aviation tech to Russia. After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the head of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it is too early to predict when its decommissioning will be completed; and, the French Senate began debate on raising the retirement age to sixty-four.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”― Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Murdoch told Fox, "Trump has a large following, it would be stupid to antagonize them with the truth."Then, on the rest of the menu, troops who refused the COVID vaccine still may face military discipline; federal officials sued a Louisiana chemical company over cancer risks to a nearby minority area; and, a settlement of more than $1 million was approved in a class action lawsuit over a federal immigration raid at an eastern Tennessee meatpacking plant.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a French court dismissed a Uganda environmental lawsuit against TotalEnergies; and, Russian government officials will be banned from using most foreign words when carrying out their duties.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joe Biden's remarkable journey to Ukraine “reads like a movie script.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA ordered Norfolk Southern to clean up the East Palestine, Ohio toxic derailment; the Minnesota Senate approved restoring voting rights for felons; and, anti-abortion groups suing to ban the abortion pill lost their bid for an early trial.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Putin's war accelerated the European Union's transition to green energy; and, Venice's smaller canals have practically dried up due to a prolonged spell of low tides.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joe Biden's surprise visit to Ukraine “is a really big deal.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the drama of McCarthy's election as Speaker may open the House to more C-SPAN cameras; Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detectives are treating a “peacemaker” bishop's death as a homicide; and, Black Baltimoreans fight to save neighborhood homes from redevelopment.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Finland could join NATO ahead of Sweden; and, Tunisia ordered Europe's top trade union official expelled after she addressed labor union protesters at a demonstration.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia ChildShow Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kari Lake is not the only loser who keeps losing.On the rest of the menu, long a hotbed of extremism, Oregon seeks to curb paramilitaries; Department of Justice officials in Washington removed federal prosecutors in Texas and taken over the corruption investigation into Attorney General Ken Paxton; and, South Carolina lawmakers are alarmed at what they are finding in the probe of a $3.5 Billion dollar accounting error.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Facebook ran ads in Moldova for an oligarch sanctioned by the United States; and, China imposed sanctions on Lockheed Martin and Raytheon for supplying weapons to Taiwan.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”― Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Representative Jamie Raskin is calling for a congressional investigation into the $2 billion Saudi investment in Jared Kushner's private equity fund.Then, on the rest of the menu, California and Nevada are advancing legislation that would ban forced prison labor and involuntary servitude; a second amendment sanctuary measure was overturned in Oregon; and, the waters off New England had the second warmest year on record in 2022.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the Turkey quake has revived the debate over a nuclear power plant being built on the country's southern Mediterranean coastline; and, Brazil police are targeting illegal gold exports from the Amazon.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump special counsel suspects criminal conduct by Trump's lawyer.Then, on the rest of the menu, Joe Biden's judicial picks are more diverse by race and gender than those of any of his predecessors; Fox News lost an attempt to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against the network; and, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is expanding the Advanced Placement African American Studies courses next year from one school to twenty-six.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the head of China's national soccer federation has been arrested on corruption charges; and, India's tax officials searched BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Modi in the UK.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Trump lawyer wanted to say the dog ate the classified material in the empty folder on Trump's nightstand, but Trump hates dogs.Then, on the rest of the menu, the oldest schoolhouse for Black children in the US has been moved to a museum; GOP election tactics come as no surprise to Wisconsin's Black voters; and, the Kansas GOP picked an election conspiracy promoter as its new leader.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the shutdown of one of the country's last independent news outlets; and, Turkey ordered the arrests of one hundred thirteen contractors over thousands of collapsed buildings in the catastrophic earthquake.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, House Republicans spent yesterday getting crushed by Democrats.On the rest of the menu, despite repeated requests, Florida still has not explained to the College Board how its African American Advanced Placement course violates state law; the Ohio Department of Education says it won't do anything about neo-Nazi homeschoolers; and, a Nevada company that recycles batteries for electric vehicles has won a $2 billion green energy loan from the Energy Department.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a joint US/UK effort has imposed sanctions on a Russian cybercrime group; and, Greece's parliament has banned the far-right Greek National Party from the upcoming election.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” - Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, thanks to Chrissy Teigen, Donald Trump will forever be described in the Congressional Record with three words that will live in infamy.Then, on the rest of the menu, a former deputy alleges in a lawsuit there is another cop gang forming at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; a broadcast reporter was arrested for trespassing while covering a news conference about the Ohio toxic train derailment; and, the Missouri Republican-led House voted against banning minors from openly carrying firearms in public without adult supervision.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where China says it was smeared in Joe Biden's State of the Union speech because of the repeated use of “competition;” and, Twitter's plan to cut off free access to its application programming interface has evoked a ‘fair amount of panic' among scientists.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~METRO SHRIMP & GRITS3 cups water2 teaspoons salt1 cup coarsely ground grits2 cups whole milk2 pounds uncooked 22 to 26 count shrimp, peeled and deveinedsalt to taste1 pinch hot smoked Hungarian paprika, or to taste1 lemon, zest and juiced2 tablespoons lemon thyme1 pound andouille sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices5 slices hickory smoked bacon1 medium green bell pepper, chopped1 medium red bell pepper, chopped1 medium yellow bell pepper, chopped1 cup chopped onion1 teaspoon minced garlic¼ cup butter¼ cup all-purpose flour1 cup chicken broth1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce1 cup shredded sharp Tillamook Cheddar cheeseBring water and 2 teaspoons salt to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk grits into the boiling water, and then whisk in half-and-half. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until grits are thickened and tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Set aside and keep warm.Sprinkle shrimp with salt and hot smoked paprika to taste. Add lemon juice, toss to combine, and set aside to marinate.Place sausage slices in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove sausage from the skillet.Add bacon to the same skillet and increase heat to medium-high. Cook until evenly browned, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer bacon to paper towels to drain, then chop or crumble when cool enough to handle. Leave bacon drippings in the skillet.Add bell peppers, onion, and garlic to the bacon drippings; cook and stir until onion is translucent, about 8 minutes.Stir cooked sausage and marinated shrimp into the skillet with the cooked vegetables. Turn off the heat and set aside.Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in flour, stirring to create a smooth roux. Turn heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is golden brown in color, 8 to 10 minutes.Pour the roux over the sausage, shrimp, and vegetables. Place the skillet over medium heat, add chicken broth, bacon, and Worcestershire sauce, and stir to combine. Cook until sauce thickens up and shrimp turn opaque and bright pink, about 8 minutes.Just before serving, mix sharp Cheddar cheese into grits until melted and grits are creamy and light yellow. Serve shrimp mixture over cheese grits. Sprinkle lemon zest and lemon thyme over shrimp and grits.Bon Appétit!JP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Art

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the real reason GOP members heckled Biden was for “showbiz.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Democrats won control of the Pennsylvania House in a special election, ending a dozen years of GOP rule; Virginia Senate Democrats rejected three Youngkin appointees; and, Indiana lawmakers look to broaden birth control access.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where five priests were sentenced to ten years for conspiracy to commit democracy in Nicaragua; and, archaeologists have uncovered a rare 14th-century Spanish synagogue in the southern town of Utrera.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice PutnamBon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's 2024 campaign is anything but normal.Then, on the rest of the menu, a cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation's new 988 mental health helpline late last year; a major northern Florida hospital system was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend; and, spotty electronic poll book security raises considerable concerns going into 2024.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Buddhist temple has been extensively damaged by fire in the Australian city of Melbourne; and, a pair of 7.8 magnitude earthquakes, followed by severe aftershocks, knocked down scores of buildings across Turkey and Syria.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, one could almost think the College Board 'bowed to political pressure' with the whitening of the AP African American Studies program.Then, on the rest of the menu, lawmakers introduced a bill that would eliminate Idaho's only bipartisan legislative committee and place the state's independent auditing agency under Republican control; Pacific Gas & Electric will face trial for manslaughter over its role in a 2020 Northern California wildfire that killed four people; and, the first sweeping federal gun crime report in twenty years has been released.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the United States and the Philippines agreed on a larger American military presence in the island chain, as a bulwark against increasing China aggressiveness; and, Australia is removing the British monarchy from its bank notes.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Dems sound alarm over Capitol security under the GOP.On the rest of the menu, Ohio officials are investigating a pro-Nazi home school network; frustrated Texans endure another winter storm with no power or heat; and, Washington state's low-income tax credit is available for the first time.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Austria expelled four Russian diplomats based in Vienna; and, a Brazilian senator claimed Bolsonaro plotted the coup to block the Lula presidency.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”- Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's decision to invoke the fifth amendment more than four hundred times was 'unprecedented.'Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA blocked an Alaska gold and copper mine over the environmental impact on the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery; the population of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has rebounded for a second year in a row; and, Maine utility regulators gave final approval to a wind power project that would provide enough electricity for at least 450,000 New England homes.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where state lawmakers may exonerate women killed during the Connecticut Witch Trials three hundred seventy-five years ago; and, the Church of England shed light on its ‘shameful' slave trade ties.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump and Barr lose as their “deep state” bomb blows up in their face.Then, on the rest of the menu, emails reveal tensions on how to drastically reduce water use from the parched Colorado River; mass shootings lead to a widening divide on state gun policies; and, the DEA Mexico chief was quietly ousted last year over ties to cartel drug lawyers.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a search is underway for a radioactive capsule missing in Western Australia; and, Afghan malnutrition rates are at a record high.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new reporting by the New York Times exposed corruption of the Durham probe was used as a political weapon for Trump.On the rest of the menu, Virginia Democrats defeated bills limiting abortion access; a judge blocked the sale of machine gun converters after the Department of Justice sued; and, the FBI said it “hacked the hackers” to bring down the Hive ransomware gang.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Thai activist was sentenced to 28 years for online posts insulting the monarchy; and, the US Treasury Department toughened sanctions against Russia's Wagner mercenary group.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”― Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, we've all been waiting for the definitive debunking of Trump AG Bill Barr.Then, on the rest of the menu, New York's attorney general warned the owner of Madison Square Garden that it may be violating anti-bias laws with its practice of barring lawyers from its venues, and using facial recognition technology to enforce it; a record 16.3 million people have sought health coverage through ‘Obamacare' this year; and, the Department of Agriculture announced it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country's largest national forest in southeast Alaska.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Spain issued an app-based food delivery company a new fine of $62 million for violating labor laws; and, the results of a survey in the Netherlands showed a “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust.”All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Donald Trump must be indicted to save our democracy.”Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty GOP states sued the Biden administration over its new border policy; Los Angeles County's annual count of homeless residents began Tuesday night; and, Florida is offering an advanced lesson in anti-Blackness.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Finland's foreign minister signaled the country could join NATO without Sweden; and, killings of journalists around the world jumped by fifty percent in 2022, driven largely by attacks in Ukraine, Mexico and Haiti.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joe Manchin went full Manchin on the debt ceiling, classified docs, running for president and high-fiving Sinema in Davos for saving the filibuster.Then, on the rest of the menu, the military is probing whether blood cancers are linked to nuclear silo work from decades ago; state lawmakers have proposed power grid protections after scores of domestic terror attacks; and, a subpoena has been granted in the Reno mayor's suit over who secretly installed a tracking device on her vehicle.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the Justice Department charged two businessmen with trying to conceal a sanctioned Russian oligarch's luxury yacht seized in Spain last year; and, the trial of a former leader of the Hells Angels in Europe for organized crime charges, is set to start today in Madrid.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the reason they had the janitor investigate the court leaks is because John Roberts knows, if they let the Ginni out of the bottle, bad things will happen.On the rest of the menu, a Georgia school district lowered a Black student's GPA after he reported racist Snapchats; T-Mobile says the data on 37 million customers has been stolen; and, climate misinformation rockets out of control on Musk's twitter.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Peru police used tear gas to block thousands of protesters from marching in the capitol city of Lima; and, over one million people marched in the streets of Paris and other French cities against raising the retirement age.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”- Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DeSantis culture war on US history threatens to backfire on Florida higher education.Then, on the rest of the menu, the State Department launched a new program dubbed, the Welcome Corps, that lets private citizens sponsor refugees in the US; no woman is expected to serve on the South Carolina Supreme Court for the first time in thirty-five years; and, an election-denying GOP congressman under an active Department of Justice probe, has been assigned to the House committee investigating Biden.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Belarus' main opposition leader denounced her trial as a farce; and, fighting back tears, Jacinda Ardern announced that February 7 would be her last day as New Zealand's prime minister.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

lWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ‘hateful rhetoric transcends into hateful actions.'Then, on the rest of the menu, the Washington, DC mayor and the city council are at odds over the new criminal code; the FEC dismissed the GOP complaint over Gmail's spam filter; and, the World Economic Forum in Davos said Elon Musk was not on the guest list for the annual meeting, despite what the Head Twit claims.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has been acquitted of tax charges in the Philippines; and, the US Supreme Court struggles with criminal charges against Turkish-owned Halkbank, accused of helping to launder billions of dollars so Iran could evade US economic sanctions.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even if he is elected, “Kevin McCarthy will be the weakest Speaker we've ever seen.”Then, on the rest of the menu, US News & World Report will change how its rankings of law schools are calculated after a boycott by a number of top programs; California cops searched Black teenagers at nearly six times the rate of white teens; and, a rural state judge continued to block a provision of Oregon's voter-approved gun law requiring a background check to close the so-called Charleston Loophole.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a journalist in northern Mexico escaped unharmed in the first reported attempt on a reporter's life in the country in the new year; and, the US is reopening visa and consular services at its embassy in Cuba.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Adam Kinzinger fears for the nation if Trump is not charged with a crime for January 6.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge put a temporary hold on a new California law boosting protections for fast-food workers; the Illinois Supreme Court has halted provisions of a new law that would eliminate cash bail for criminal defendants; and, blackouts after coal and natural gas units went offline during dangerously cold conditions has intensified questions about the Tennessee Valley Authority's recent decision to double down on fossil fuels.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Dubai ended its 30% tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom; and, Croatia rang in the New Year as a fully integrated EU member.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the threat of mass resignations from the intel community upended Trump's coup plans.On the rest of the menu, an Idaho school board won't say what are the racist incidents it is investigating at its middle and high schools; the US Census Bureau has redefined the meaning of ‘urban' America; and, the New Year is expected to bring more changes to state voting laws.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a court in Dubai approved the extradition to Denmark of a British financier accused of orchestrating a $1.7 billion tax fraud scheme; and, the Turkish, Syrian, and Russian defense chiefs held surprise talks in Moscow.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”― Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Meadows burned documents in his White House office “maybe a dozen times,” right after meeting with Scott Perry during the transition period.Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA is investigating Colorado for racially discriminatory air pollution regulations; in courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didn't commit; and, Florida's citrus, fruit and vegetable crops appear to have escaped any widespread damage from some of the coldest weather in years.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the Iraq prime minister ordered a crackdown on local businesses violating international trademarks; and, Finland received its first floating Liquid Natural Gas terminal to replace Russian petrol.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a White House aide testified Trump wanted blanket pardons for everyone involved in the January 6 insurrection.Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans distorted crime data to win elections, but it didn't work; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants to know why Tesla has stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online; and, monster waves, high tides and gale-force winds that battered Oregon and Washington led to fatal crashes, power outages and flooded homes.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where about two hundred women are still in prison in Mexico under outdated anti-abortion state laws, even though the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion last year; and, pre-Christmas weapons inspections in a small town in northern Greece has turned up hand grenades, assault rifles and decades-old unexploded ordnance.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Cassidy Hutchinson's January 6 testimony transcript was ‘like a mob movie.'Then, on the rest of the menu, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon will get $24 million dollars to replace its decades-long faulty water facility; a January 6 insurgent was arrested after an hours-long standoff in California; and, a federal judge in New York kept the plea deals of two FTX executives secret so Sam Bankman-Fried wouldn't get spooked and fight extradition from the Bahamas.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where four major international aid groups suspended operations in Afghanistan following a Taliban edict to ban women from working at non-governmental organizations; and, the head of the Turkish Medical Association stands trial on terror charges after calling for an investigation into whether the Turkish military used chemical weapons on Kurd militants.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Cassidy Hutchinson did not want a lawyer from Trump World.On the rest of the menu, after spending $95 million dollars to own the Libs, outgoing-Arizona governor Doug Ducey is backing down and removing the shipping container wall along the Mexico border; a federal judge questioned San Francisco's tactics in its homeless sweeps; and, turning what had been a long-standing post-Watergate norm into established federal policy, the House passed a bill that would require audits of any president's income tax filings.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Russia's Wagner Group received arms from North Korea to bolster its forces in Ukraine; and an employee of Germany's foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason for passing secret information to Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”― Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6th committee released testimony transcripts of Trump allies under oath.Then, on the rest of the menu, Kari Lake's promised bombshells to prove she's the rightful governor of Arizona turned out to be duds at the first day of her trial; the IRS mandatory presidential audit policy goes under the spotlight; and, as the flu rages, the Biden administration has released medicine from the national stockpile.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where two of Sam Bankman-Fried's top associates secretly pleaded guilty to criminal charges and are cooperating with investigators; and the foreign ministers of Australia and China met in Beijing in a bid to repair their tense relationship.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,Orleans, March 5, 1851~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's insurrection impeachment lawyer David Schoen was fact-checked on live tv.Then, on the rest of the menu, a rule delay by the Treasury Department makes a big EV tax credit possible by early next year; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the witness stand in an FTC anti-trust case; and, after intense prodding by the Biden Administration, the Postal Service pledged a move to an all-electric delivery fleet.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Afghanistan's Taliban rulers banned women students from attending universities effective immediately; and, in an unprecedented move against Spain's leftist coalition government, the country's top court handed down a ruling preventing the upper house of Parliament from debating and voting..All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, based on Meadows' texts, reporters are ‘alarmed at the intelligence level of some of our elected representatives.'On the rest of the menu, California has lowered incentives for rooftop solar panels; federal regulators ordered a review of power-grid security after attacks across the country; and, an intel analyst tried to prevent the January 6 attack, but DHS repeatedly ignored his warnings.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Chinese firms averted delisting as the US audit watchdog gets full inspection access; and, a leftist bloc of Latin American countries closed ranks behind the deposed Peruvian president.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”― Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans just can't quit Donald Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon has appointed the first Laotian judge in the United States; the mayor of Reno, Nevada filed suit after finding a tracking device on her vehicle; and, the Iowa Democratic Party chair will step down in the wake of a vote by the national party to put the South Carolina primary ahead of the Iowa caucuses.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Moldova suspended six TV channels over broadcasting misinformation from Russian media; and, the Transportation Security Agency has been discovering a record number of guns on passengers at airline checkpoints.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller's law group says it's fighting 'racism against White people.'Then, on the rest of the menu, Congress passed a bipartisan bill to fund police de-escalation training; the US government has finally sued Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and the state for trespassing on federal lands over the placement of shipping containers on the border with Mexico; and, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled on new penalties for companies that illegally fire workers who unionize.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Turkish court sentenced an Erdogan rival to two years in prison for insulting public officials; and, activists have filed a lawsuit against Facebook/Meta over a murdered Ethiopian professor.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, recent subpoenas issued by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith reveals he has expanded the Trump investigation.Then, on the rest of the menu, outgoing Democratic governor Kate Brown commuted the sentences of all seventeen people on Oregon's death row to life without possibility of parole; a bench trial has started to determine if an Alaskan Oath Keeper lawmaker is unfit for office because of his participation to overthrow the US government; and, the Department of Justice and Homeland Security were urged to investigate a multi-state conspiracy by Trump groups to copy voting software and circulate it “in the wild.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Russian FSB officer was charged by US prosecutors with smuggling sensitive electronic components to help Russia's military effort; and, a key figure in a massive German tax evasion case was convicted of three counts of tax evasion and sentenced to eight years in prison.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Marjorie Taylor Greene told the New York Young Republicans Club that Jan 6 protesters 'would've been armed' if she and Steve Bannon had been in charge of organizing it.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon lawsuit puts a spotlight on the destruction of Black neighborhoods by urban improvement projects and construction of the nation's highways; as Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey prepares to leave office, he has hired crews to erect hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona's eastern boundary with Mexico; and, one of New Hampshire's teachers' unions is suing to stop public dollars from being spent to fund private schools through the Education Freedom Account program.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Russian court sentenced a Putin war critic to eight years for spreading ‘fake news;' and, Germany plans to tighten its gun laws in the wake of a plot by the far-right "Reichsbürger” group to violently overthrow the government.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/12/2141370/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays