West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge has ruled the removal of a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery can continue.Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge ordered a woman who set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, the full amount sought by prosecutors; more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but not enough to raise concern about the labor market or broader economy; and, pro-Hamas rioters briefly blocked entrance roads to airports in New York and Los Angeles.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian politician calling for peace in Ukraine lost her appeal to run for president against Vladimir Putin; and, China sanctioned a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on human rights ab