Mouthful

Mouthful focuses on two topics - First, Maria Hunt talks about her new book "The Bubbly Bar," filled with innovative sparkling wine cocktails. Next, we take a road trip to Bulgaria, where VINI is producing premium wines at bargain prices. Vance Petrunoff of the Sonoma-based importer, Bulgarian Master Vintners, join host Michele Anna Jordan to explore accessible, affordable wines from eastern Europe, including a sauvignon blanc that weighs in at just 12.5 percent alcohol and sells in the US for $ 7.99.

Mouthful welcomes chef Terrell Bernier of New Orleans and Alan Linsley of Nonesuch school to discuss "Remembering Hurricane Katrina," a benefit coming up on August 29.

Mouthful heads to Hawaii to explore kava kava, or awa, the sacred beverage of the Polynesian triangle. This episode focuses on contemporary awa, with a visit to an awa bar in downtown Hilo and a chat with an awa vendor at the Hilo farmers market.

Mouthful continues its tradition of joining in the annual celebration of the Gravenstein Apple at the Sebastopol Farmers Market. This year's guests include historian Gaye LeBaron, Carol Kozlowski of Kozlowski Farms and Stan DeVoto of DeVoto Farms, with a special "appearance" by The Fondettes.

Mark Pasternak of Devil's Gulch Ranch in Nicasio and Dan

Goldfield of Dutton Goldfield Winery yuck it up as they chat about

pinot noir in western Marin.

Jeffrey Russell and Ariel Dillon of Santa Rosa's Redwood Empire Farm talk about their newly opened farm stand, their happy chickens and the history of their four-acre farm.

Mouthful welcomes Daphne Miller, author of "The Jungle Effect: The Healthiest Diets From Around the World - Why They Work and How To Make Them Work For You," which has just been released in paperback. Dr. Miller is both a board-certified family physician with a private practice in San Francisco and a professor at the University of California.

It's all things herbal on this week's Mouthful when Terri Toso of Napa Valley Botanicals and Peg Schafer of Petaluma's Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm join host Michele Anna Jordan to talk about the Herbal Faire and Plant Sale, coming up on June 21 at the Sebastopol Farmers Market.

Tonight's wide-ranging episode features Jonathan Mortimer, executive chef of Alexander's in the newly renovated Timber Cove Inn, live in the studio and, by phone, Kenny Kohn of New York's famous Katz's Deli, Bryan Bracewell of Southside Market & BBQ in Elgin, Texas and Tony Luke of Tony Luke's, purveyorss of legendary Philly Cheesesteaks, all of whom are heading to California for the Great American Food and Music Festival in Mountain View on June 13.

Food, wine and art intersect again at Santa Rosa's up and coming arts district, South A St., which is hosting another public party on the evening of June 5. Guests include artist Mary Vaughan, chef Brian Anderson of Bistro 29 and Brent Lindsay of the Imaginists Theater Collective.