Mouthful welcomes chef Ryan Pollnow of Matanzas Creek Winery, who will build a gingerbread house during the show. Joining in will be Lisa Gottreich of Bohemian Creamery, who will join Ryan and others at the winery's upcoming holiday open house weekend.

It's a dessert lovers paradise on this week's Mouthful, when Condra Easley and her sister Debbie Morris of Sebastopol's Patisserie Angelica talk about their extraordinary cakes, cookies and confections and explain their new service for locals only.

Mouthful explores the traditions of El Dia de Los Muertos, with an emphasis on Petaluma's celebration.

Mouthful welcomes William Grimes, former New York Times restaurant critic and author of a delicious new book, "Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York."

Stephanie Rosenbaum talks about her delightful new work "The Astrology

Cookbook" and Frederique Lavoipierre discusses the upcoming Insecta-

palooza. Evangeline, a beautiful stick bug, bobs and sways through the

entire show and much to Stephanie's delight, the metallic-fanged

jumping spider does not escape his cage.

In an archive presentation, Mouthful revisits Portugal with port master Rupert Symington.

Ritz Guggiana and Marissa Guggiana discuss the demise of Ritz Food

Service and the future of Sonoma Direct, which works directly with

local ranchers to make their grass-fed meats and poultry available in

Sonoma and Marin Counties and beyond.

Mouthful remembers Julia Child, with a look back at two interviews. The first features Michele interviewing Julia and her long-time collaborator Jacques Pepin before a live audience in the fall of 1999.

As part of Mouthful's remembrance of Julia Child, we revisit Michele's conversation with Stephanie Hersch, Julia's assistant for 16 years.

Mouthful presents a very special rebroadcast of last winter's interview with cookbook author Sheila Lukins, who died last week of brain cancer. Joining in is Julee Rosso, co-founder of The Silver Palate and co-author of The Silver Palate series of books, who speaks from her home in Michigan about the death of her colleague and the impact their work had on America.