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, if Ted Lieu raised the issue of Donald Trump’s awful past at a press conference, would it make a sound?Then, on the rest of the menu, Montana Republicans want the state high court to reverse the landmark youth climate ruling; election conspiracy-addled MAGA commissioners in Nevada’s second most populous county refused to certify the results of two local recounts from last month’s primary; and, California fast food franchisees are responding to the state-mandated $20 per hour minimum wage by drastically cutting employee hours.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian court ordered the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s widow, who lives abroad; and, following in a long-held family tradition, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is being investigated over illicit financing in her 2