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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Justice Sotomayor sounded the alarm on the MAGA SCOTUS.

Then, on the rest of the menu, an Army National Guardswoman and part-time instructor for an Arizona high school was exposed as a neo-Nazi; with rates climbing, more Oregonians had their electricity or natural gas service cut off in April than at any time in the six years the state’s been tracking disconnections; and, mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus have been found in Los Angeles County.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iceland elected businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir as its new president; and, physicist and climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum holds an irreversible lead that has made her Mexico’s first woman president, oh, and she’s Jewish, too.















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"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





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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump still has to deal with sentencing, appeal options, the gag order and more following his historic conviction on all 34 felony counts.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the mother of a January 6 officer was ‘swatted’ at her Virginia home hours after her son criticized Trump; a New Mexico judge granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his company has failed to protect kids from sexual exploitation; and, anti-vaxxers are to blame for the sharp rise of whooping cough in Oregon.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where billons of dollars in gold is smuggled out of Africa each year and most of it ends up in the United Arab Emirates; and, Sweden’s domestic security agency accused Iran of using established criminal networks in Sweden as a proxy to target Israeli or Jewish interests in the Scandinavian country.


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

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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is left to stew in his own madness as the jury deliberates his crimes.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a conservative Republican blocked the confirmation of the first Native American federal judge for Montana; the Governor of Louisiana signed legislation that makes it a crime to knowingly approach within twenty-five feet of a police officer while they are “engaged in law enforcement duties;” and, a MAGA Republican on the election board for Fulton County, Georgia refused to certify the primary election.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police searched the European Parliament as part of an investigation into whether EU lawmakers were bribed to promote Russian propaganda; and, the US pledged $135 million in aid to Western-leaning Moldova to counter Russian influence.








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

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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Cannon went full MAGA with her pro-Trump ruling.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Klickitat County, Washington has narrowed its options for a new jail, and none include the out of control Constitutional Sheriff lording over everything; a former California water official plead guilty to conspiring to steal water for the last two decades from the California Aquaduct; and, the Texas GOP has taken the party’s hostility to democracy to a new level.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Europe’s cybersecurity chief says disruptive digital attacks by Russia have doubled recently in the run up to the EU elections; and a Polish nature photographer who was arrested in Congo and sentenced to life on espionage charges, has been released and returned to Europe.



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

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"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...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jack Smith wants to dance, but you don’t put Baby Aileen in a corner.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin judge will hear arguments in a union lawsuit against collective bargaining restrictions; after a deadly heat wave killed over four hundred people last summer, Phoenix, Arizona officials are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting triple digits this spring; and, a Chicago man wrongfully convicted of murder, based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness, is suing the city and the police department.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungary’s five-time Prime Minister Orbán is facing a new serious contender in the upcoming EU elections; and, Poland rolled out plans for fortifications along its border with Russia and Belarus.


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

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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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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!


Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump was a total lunatic on social media over the weekend as he made posts that could constitute criminal admissions and made statements about the jury that are highly inappropriate and likely gag order violations.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon officials have warned against drinking raw milk as a bird flu outbreak spreads among dairy farms; a Virginia tech company was hit with a DOJ fine after it sent up a job posting seeking only white candidates; and, a Riverside, California woman who bombarded the former executive director of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue with phone calls and threatening voicemails, has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British police say four people were hurt and one was arrested when supporters of Iran’s authorities clashed with anti-government protesters at a London event marking the death of President Ebrahim Raisi; and, a Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison for complicity in war crimes.
















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"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




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