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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

By: Roy Justice Putnam
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 West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially Special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays & Blue Moon Spirits Fridays!

Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam serves up a cornucopia of abundance in The Bistro Cafe with "All The News That's Fit To Read" and "In This Reporter's Opinion," a lively, humorous and astute analyses on the issues of the day, along with spirited discussions at the "Chef's Table" with politicians, pundits, celebrities, musicians, authors, filmmakers, academics and leaders of the New Media.

Bon Appétit!

First a road manager and occasional back-up singer for the rock group, Cottonmouth in the mid-70's, Justice Putnam then re-emerged with the Laguna Beach Free Poets briefly, part of the Los Angeles Art/ Performance/ Poetry/ Dance/ Punk movement during the early 80's. He then performed solo shows, as a member of Meta-4 and later with Chris Watkins of Hoi Poloi and also Preacher Boy & The Natural Blues, as well as with Jimmy McAllister of Rabbit Choir at such venues as Gorky's in Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque in Santa Monica, Cafe du Nord and Biscuits and Blues in San Francisco, Freight and Salvage and The Bison Brewing Company in Berkeley, The Sweetwater in Mill Valley, and also at music festivals in France, Belgium, Germany, California and Oregon. His poetry and prose has been published in Elektrum Magazine, Vol. No. Magazine, American Poetry Anthology, Literatus World Review, Berkeley Daily Planet and other academic, small press, print and online journals.

A scholar-athlete in his youth, Justice Putnam worked as an orderly, an emergency room technician, a Roustabout and a Production Operator at an oil refinery. He taught History and English in private schools briefly, while coaching football and track. He was a fruit and vegetable inspector for the California State Department of Agriculture and a stone mason building free standing moss stone walls in Marin and Sonoma Counties. He has been a theater light designer, an actor, a surfer, deep-sea fisherman and a Grinder on a racing yacht. He was the co-host with the chanson francaise impresario, Simon Dray, on his "Fm/French Connection Bistro Radio" broadcast from KUSF 90.3 in San Francisco for over a decade.

Justice has also traveled around the world, living for short times in France, Italy, Japan and Mexico.

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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 16 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 16 May 25
    May 16 2025
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!



    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Democratic Party hit record recruitment numbers for 2026.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, Multnomah County health officials have confirmed one case of active tuberculosis at a middle school in Southeast Portland, Oregon; Trump has suspended the asylum system, leaving immigrants to face an uncertain future; and, the US lost a major percentage of business travelers in April as economic anxiety and border detentions have cooled demand.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Estonia warned that Russia is using military force to defend its shadow fleet of aging tankers violating international sanctions; and, Vietnam approved the Trump Organization’s $1.5 billion golf and real estate project to avoid Donnie Two Doll’s 46% tariff.

    All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

    Bon Appétit!

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    “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"







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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 15 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 15 May 25
    May 15 2025
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    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a major update on arrested judge Dugan is discussed.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, a new law bans Oregon employers from asking for an applicants’ age; a federal judge ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for West Virginia coal miners; and, a Texas prosecutor sued to compel Border Patrol testimony in the criminal trial of the Uvalde school police chief.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three Russian-backed Ukrainian nationals have been arrested in Germany and Switzerland for plans to send explosive parcels to Kyiv; and, the Mexican security chief confirmed seventeen Chapo cartel family members entered the US in a green card deal with the Trump administration, and nobody cares.

    All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

    Bon Appétit!


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    “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




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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 13 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 13 May 25
    May 13 2025
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!

    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the “most corrupt president,” has been telling Americans to live in austerity because of his tariffs, while he wants “the most expensive private plane in the world” as a gift.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, White House correspondents protested the lack of wire reporters on Air Force One traveling to the Middle East; staff rebuffed two Trump appointees from entering the Copyright office; and, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission moved to fire a judge who is fighting Trump directives.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four men arrested in West Africa for an extortion scheme are linked to a California teen’s suicide; and, in a development sure to anger Trump and MAGA, Germany banned the largest anti-Democracy ‘Reich citizen’ group in the country and arrested four of its leaders.

    All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

    Bon Appétit!

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    “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” -- Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"





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