Mouthful

Mouthful celebrates the 135th anniversary of Healdsburg's Simi Winery, with Steve Reeder, director of wine making, and Susan Sueker, senior wine maker. The hour explores the winery's long history, much of it with Isabelle Simi at the helm, and considers what the future holds, as well. The conversation is, of course, accompanied by a tasting of a few signature wines.

The infamous Count Agoston Haraszthy, founder of Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma, joins host Michele Anna Jordan for a particularly beguiling conversation. The Count, despite his death in 1869, will appear with his winery's current proprietor, Jean-Charles Boisset.

Denny Hunt of Blankety-Blank Potatoes dazzles Mouthful listeners with his innovative approach to farming and mother's prowess as a gopher trapper. Early in the show, Doug Gosling and Ron Karp talk about this year's Calabash: A Festival of Gourds, Art & the Garden, taking place Sunday, October 2.

This week on Mouthful - Todd Knoll, executive chef of Jordan Winery, talks about harvest lunches, Halloween parties, making salt from seawater and more.

This week on Mouthful - Marie Gewirtz, president of the Harvest Fair Board of Directors, and Annie Vercelli, head of the Professional Food Competition, discuss the upcoming 2011 Sonoma County Harvest Fair.

Mouthful welcomes guests from two of Sonoma County's newer producing ranches, Weirauch Farm & Creamery and Salmon Creek Ranch. Both sell their farm products -- from handcrafted cheeses and sheep milk soap to duck eggs, duck meat, goat and some of the best grass-fed beef you'll ever taste -- at local farmers markets, and both are working to preserve both the land and farming traditions for future generations.

In honor of the upcoming Sonoma County Book Festival and the the festival's benefit, held earlier today at Mimi Luebbermann's Windrush Farm, tonight's episode of Mouthful features writer Anne Zimmerman, author of "An Extravagant Hunger, the Passionate Years of M. F. K. Fisher." Anne and Mouthful host Michele Anna Jordan were the featured writers at today's benefit and it seems fitting to revisit their lively provocative conversation that took place earlier this year. If you think of MFK Fisher as a food writer and, perhaps, even as the forerunner of today's foodies, you won't want to miss this episode of Mouthful.

Mouthful welcomes Mai Ibach, farmers market purveyor of Malaysian sauces (Green Curry, Red Curry, Peanut Sauce, chutneys) and delicious Vietnamese bahn mi, and Ruth Lefkowitz of Ruthy's Real Meals, health, delicious meals delivered to your door.

It's time for that icon of midsummer, the beloved Gravenstein apple, which will be celebrated in Bay Area restaurants throughout August. The first ones are appearing in our farmers markets. Mouthful explores the apple's past, present and future importance to Sonoma County with Paula Downing, manager of the Santa Rosa and Sebastopol markets, and several other Gravenstein advocates.

Mouthful explores a unique alchemy, half culinary, half romantic, with Shari [shah--ree] Sarabi and Lisbeth Holmefjord. He's from Iran, she's from Norway and now they're both in Healdsburg, where they've created Baci Cafe & Wine Bar.