West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision in a case involving Martin Shkreli is now a devastating precedent against Donald Trump. Then, on the rest of the menu, Los Angeles County agreed to pay $5 million to the founder and CEO of a software company who was accused of stealing data on county poll workers in a case pushed by conspiracy theorists and election deniers; an Oregon jury awarded $85 million to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020; and, another lawsuit has been filed against a small-town in Mississippi by local Black residents claiming cops engaged in systemic, Jim Crow-like racial discrimination.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France fined Amazon $35 million for ‘excessively intrusive’ monitoring of its warehouse staff; and, an Italian Jewish leader slammed