26 APR 2024 · Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​ https://www.spreaker.com/user/netrootsradio/west-coast-cookbook-and-speakeasy-metro-_307​​​​​ Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a court filing in https://youtu.be/5-7mzCruM80?si=DKT7TSEQDTS5cq18 by Trump’s lawyer Chris Kise, now claims he is no longer free for two weeks, so she has to delay the trial a lot. Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ordered an https://apnews.com/article/guo-wengui-chinese-businessman-fraud-2b7b19afe939acc0fdfd95c640ac45cc for the trial of Steve Bannon associate Guo Wengui, citing his past acts; the “dumbest man on the internet,” Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, will file for bankruptcy amid a slew of https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/04/24/gateway-pundit-bankruptcy/ lawsuits; and, the first commercial https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-24/the-first-big-rig-hydrogen-fuel-station-in-the-u-s-opens-in-california for big-rig trucks in the US is up and running at the Port of Oakland, California. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-arms-space-un-us-japan-russia-175d45ddb658729eff060bd8a83b8a55 a UN resolution calling for the prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space; and, a https://apnews.com/article/peru-iran-killing-plot-detention-israeli-b89d6b69b182feafb96b44cbdefa190a the preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvians in a thwarted plot to kill Israelis living in the country. All thathttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705542/-CUA-Events-NYC-10-22-Kittery-or-San-Francisco-11-04-NN18-8-2-3-18-How-to-Stop-Russiaand more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio “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

24 APR 2024 · Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! ​https://www.spreaker.com/user/netrootsradio/west-coast-cookbook-and-speakeasy-smothe_305​​​​​ Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump attorney Todd Blanche had a https://youtu.be/sqOMQXgcD5A?si=EMNgQF8LDvKNWIQr with Judge Merchan over Trump's gag order. Then, on the rest of the menu, https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2024-04-23/chabria-column-grants-pass-homelessness-supreme-court-politics sliced through the spin in the Grants Pass ‘make homelessness a crime’ case; Alabama lawmakers passed a bill that blocks https://apnews.com/article/alabama-union-11270c9b0b6438ed567d7ad48249e89f to companies that voluntarily recognize unions; and, just in time for the election, Postmaster General DeJoy is committed to rerouting mail for processing so that https://apnews.com/article/reno-mail-rerouting-usps-postmaster-general-df203a1593c8859d7fb6ce4ecb9d651b takes seven to ten days when it used to take two. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where a https://apnews.com/article/germany-china-spying-european-parliament-lawmaker-employee-85e07313ec9580d5845cd9fd999e760e EU lawmaker’s aide has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China; and, Japan’s moon lander wasn’t built to survive a https://apnews.com/article/japan-jaxa-moon-probe-slim-78edbd90fd46837d272277700431ed95t, but it’s still going after three. All thathttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705542/-CUA-Events-NYC-10-22-Kittery-or-San-Francisco-11-04-NN18-8-2-3-18-How-to-Stop-Russiaand more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio "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 Life Around the Table with Recipes"

24 APR 2024 · Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a key twist in Trump's https://youtu.be/21pIw-0UZ1I?si=y2EPfrVMOIm_0zkk scheme will be hard for him to explain away. Then, on the rest of the menu, Minnesota and other https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-censorship-lgbtq-gender-race-libraries-d52fee70d8e3d4f158068de37ce8194b are marshaling the pushback on censorship by banning the book ban; Seattle Children’s Hospital won’t turn over gender-affirming care records in a https://apnews.com/article/seattle-hospital-texas-records-paxton-e1d308835657c40e2e176d7f11d7f749 with Texas; and, the https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-legal-liability-2fabbbe0137412b71953eebcf4649bcc filed suit that the owner and manager of the massive container ship that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge should be held fully liable for the deadly collapse. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where https://apnews.com/article/uk-britain-china-spying-883477e073cc8e2b5623385c3a118d64 charged two men with spying for China, including a parliamentary researcher; and, Elon Musk accused Australia of censorship after a https://apnews.com/article/australia-elon-musk-church-stabbing-bishop-sydney-c8df3c8e905bdfe6b672faaa2ecc54f3 banned the violent video of a Bishop being stabbed. All thathttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705542/-CUA-Events-NYC-10-22-Kittery-or-San-Francisco-11-04-NN18-8-2-3-18-How-to-Stop-Russiaand more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio “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"

23 APR 2024 · 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 will https://youtu.be/JjNH_GfPMUg?si=4ue5CuErhlpxWudh he fears the most in his criminal trial. Then, on the rest of the menu, https://kansasreflector.com/2024/04/19/civil-rights-attorney-legal-action-to-hollow-out-brown-v-board-moves-at-deliberate-speed/ to ‘hollow out’ Brown v. Kansas Board of Education is moving at deliberate speed; the Los  Angeles Police Department https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-21/suspect-arrested-in-break-in-at-home-of-l-a-mayor-karen-bass for the break-in at the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass; and, after a recent exodus has left only a little more than a hundred obstetricians left in the state, an Idaho group is exploring a https://apnews.com/article/idaho-abortion-ballot-supreme-court-ban-9fad860e7b7e11a5116685ab2d45fdd8 for abortion rights and reproductive care. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where the public portion of the https://apnews.com/article/panama-papers-mossack-fonseca-odebrecht-353832bda3e1d6f4cd04339622a9b7a8 trial has come to an unexpectedly speedy end; and, two more mayoral candidates in Mexico were found dead late Friday night, bringing to seventeen the number of https://apnews.com/article/mexico-mayoral-candidate-killed-violence-elections-886c497b221087126014f7b113fd54a2 in the lead-up to the June 2 election. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio "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

19 APR 2024 · 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, Trump filed a motion to https://youtu.be/MrML2uohSrU?si=e-0xcLzlM7jOsxDc of his own behavior at the Manhattan criminal trial. Then, on the rest of the menu, a top leader of Charlie Kirk’s https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/18/austin-smith-turning-point-action-election-fraud/ Turning Point Action, resigned after being accused of forging voter signatures on official paperwork so that he could run for reelection in the Arizona House; Alabama lawmakers https://apnews.com/article/alabama-open-records-law-84c53e8fa332ceb3f7b0cb99736e3453 to strengthen the state’s weak open records law; and, a hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow, has been linked to https://apnews.com/article/texas-muleshoe-water-systems-cyberattacks-russia-5f388bf0d581fc8eb94b1190a7f29c3a hacktivist group sabotaging small town infrastructure across the United States. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where the leaders of https://apnews.com/article/eu-elections-russia-interference-campaign-belgium-czech-983e2522461a01b729ccaf5302ec5c8a warned their European Union partners to take urgent action to prevent Russian interference in June’s Europe-wide elections; and, a https://apnews.com/article/tunisia-journalist-sentenced-media-crackdown-07054a78bb7cd651636c28ed9bdbdf37 was sentenced to six months in prison for insulting an official.​ All thathttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705542/-CUA-Events-NYC-10-22-Kittery-or-San-Francisco-11-04-NN18-8-2-3-18-How-to-Stop-Russiaand more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio “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"

19 APR 2024 · Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​ https://www.spreaker.com/user/netrootsradio/west-coast-cookbook-and-speakeasy-metro-_307​​​​​ Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jared Kushner has made https://youtu.be/sn4v9QHxiIc?si=vKUu-PeTKYh_irHb from the Gulf Arab States and their billions of investments in him, while zero of those dollars are going into American businesses or to help everyday Americans. Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-three https://apnews.com/article/epa-republican-civil-rights-environment-discrimination-d49d40dedce09683c57b42647f3b05ce attacked the Biden administration’s stated goal of pursuing environmental justice, calling it a form of “racial engineering;‘’ https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-streamlines-absentee-ballot-requests-f12bc284e517145ae90fa5360be0b106 for the first time can now sign up to receive absentee ballots permanently; and, a https://apnews.com/article/ca-business-llc-owners-identity-e970f9ca42f3bfcc21e61ef0c9d96ec8 wants to require business owners and landlords to disclose their identities under legislation aimed at cracking down on questionable LLC’s. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-antisemitism-legislation-nazi-symbols-f56e7d4e9af11f941eca22b8fecbd1c2 moved to ban use of Nazi and extremist symbols that could stir violence; and, Australia prime minister Anthony Albanese said the https://apnews.com/article/australia-sydney-stabbing-mall-60042eb363b484d6adc0710d1842099b who stopped a man who stabbed six people to death from killing more shoppers in a Sydney shopping mall, is welcome to stay in the country as long as he likes. All thathttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705542/-CUA-Events-NYC-10-22-Kittery-or-San-Francisco-11-04-NN18-8-2-3-18-How-to-Stop-Russiaand more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio “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

16 APR 2024 · Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the https://youtu.be/oNd5Gu-BUkk?si=y3hcitamkuA4ZFou under Donald Trump served Trump's interests and his allies, and can still be seen in the structure of the New York criminal case against Sleepy Don. Then, on the rest of the menu, members of an https://apnews.com/article/bodies-found-missing-kansas-women-search-oklahoma-1ff215d35d65fec498c232fd85c85087 far-right, anti-government group are charged in the grisly slayings of a young mother and a preacher’s wife; a former Marine was sentenced to nine years in prison for firebombing a https://apnews.com/article/southern-california-planned-parenthood-bombing-9f2c5ff039b6c2ea6555559585de9195 Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022; and, the https://apnews.com/article/maine-paramilitary-training-restriction-bill-9302806e9b3b680ef05520fd50139ee8 signed a bill restricting paramilitary training in response to a neo-Nazi’s plan to create a center for a “blood tribe.” After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where lawmakers in the https://apnews.com/article/georgia-media-registration-legislation-foreign-influence-7443b630fca2bb4a096049c75ecc2e10https://apnews.com/article/georgia-media-registration-legislation-foreign-influence-7443b630fca2bb4a096049c75ecc2e10 turned to fisticuffs as parliament debated a divisive new Kremlin-like law dubbed the foreign agent bill; and, testimony began in a civil lawsuit accusing https://apnews.com/article/japan-police-racial-profiling-lawsuit-d626a974fa533cc0c8a174ce1795b5b7 of racial profiling. All thathttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705542/-CUA-Events-NYC-10-22-Kittery-or-San-Francisco-11-04-NN18-8-2-3-18-How-to-Stop-Russiaand more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio “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"

15 APR 2024 · 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, in the last hours before his https://youtu.be/ydcB0ndeURo?si=gP8zoD9TvQsz-Epn, Trump reminded everybody about his dark past owning teen beauty pageants. Then, on the rest of the menu, https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/14/polymer80-ghost-guns-pennsylvania/ becomes the fourth city to ban the nation’s largest ghost gun parts dealer; a conservative https://apnews.com/article/utah-education-board-natalie-cline-0b59b754a53d8fb8bbf03d8fa8ba7b5a school board member who questioned a student’s gender, lost her party nomination for reelection; and https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-14/nobody-saw-this-coming-california-dairies-scramble-to-guard-herds-against-bird-flu dairy farms are scrambling to guard their herds against the H5N1 bird flu virus. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where https://apnews.com/article/belarus-crackdown-dissident-rock-band-sentenced-0a8adc19b3b9f9d71f952f0c18280809 convicted a famous dissident rock band and sentenced its members to several years of “correctional labor;” and, three men stranded on an uninhabited https://apnews.com/article/help-island-atoll-pacific-coast-guard-acfe972c9e6735ab0a6e12b033f959f8 survived for more than a week until palm fronds they used to spell out HELP on the beach was spotted by Navy and Coast Guard aviators. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio "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

10 APR 2024 · Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​ https://www.spreaker.com/user/netrootsradio/west-coast-cookbook-and-speakeasy-smothe_305​​​​​ Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Aileen Cannon https://youtu.be/Hy8Qm0G6yCk?si=SqNmbm0ETdatKO38, but this time blamed Jack Smith for her own lack of knowledge about the law. Then, on the rest of the menu, the woman who https://www.thedailybeast.com/aimee-harris-florida-woman-who-stole-ashley-bidens-diary-sentenced-to-a-month-behind-bars?ref=home to stealing Ashley Biden’s diary and selling it to Project Veritas, was sentenced to one month of hardly any time in prison; a California https://apnews.com/article/kevin-mccarthy-vince-fong-house-assembly-election-3390b5a8b1effce0a3745ca9bd37669f ruled that Kevin McCarthy’s protege can run dual candidacies on the state ballot; and, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton https://apnews.com/article/lawsuit-guaranteed-income-program-texas-harris-county-d875494123a749a90b74e1f06c218468 to stop a guaranteed income program set to start this month for Houston-area residents. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where six northern European nations signed a deal to protect https://apnews.com/article/north-sea-infrastructure-threats-denmark-a97a3e7837c4bafd0fd1a4c85f559056 from hostile actors; and, lawmaker https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-09/simon-harris-is-installed-as-irelands-new-prime-minister-hes-the-countrys-youngest-leader was elected Ireland’s prime minister by a vote in parliament, becoming at thirty-seven the country’s youngest-ever leader. All thathttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705542/-CUA-Events-NYC-10-22-Kittery-or-San-Francisco-11-04-NN18-8-2-3-18-How-to-Stop-Russiaand more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio "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 Life Around the Table with Recipes"

10 APR 2024 · Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in a scathing sixty-six page filing, https://youtu.be/Du80iPSnWuQ?si=KU644YC_5QFIBijD urged the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s claims of complete and total immunity. Then, on the rest of the menu, new California legislation seeks to permanently https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-08/california-moves-to-ban-use-of-the-weedkiller-paraquat, a powerful and widely used weedkiller that has been linked to Parkinson’s disease; West Virginia had a whopping https://apnews.com/article/west-virginia-tornadoes-56fb4ed32db81a434f55bf0e8b30a72a last week, more than double its yearly average; and, https://www.opb.org/article/2024/04/07/power-generated-by-northwest-dams-falls/ generated for electricity from Oregon and Washington dams fell to historically low levels last year, and experts expect it could drop further by year’s end. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where an espionage scandal rocking https://apnews.com/article/austria-spying-scandal-russia-ott-marsalek-wirecard-8921f3ce95b30646ee1952bf8949a43f is laying bare Russian spying operations across Europe; and, the https://www.rawstory.com/panama-papers-trial-to-begin-eight-years-after-tax-evasion-scandal/ trial has begun, eight years after the international tax evasion scandal was first exposed. All thathttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705542/-CUA-Events-NYC-10-22-Kittery-or-San-Francisco-11-04-NN18-8-2-3-18-How-to-Stop-Russiaand more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ ​https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradiohttps://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio “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"