Mouthful welcomes Ernie Shelton of Healdsburg's Shelton's Market. Ernie has a long history in the county as both a natural products grocer and an accomplished jazz singer.

Tim Warrilow, co-founder of Fever-Tree, talks about what it takes to make premium natural mixers--tonic water, bitter lemon, ginger ale, club soda and the brand new Fever-Tree Ginger Beer--that match the quality and enhance the flavor of the newly-available artisan spirits by boutique producers.

Mouthful welcomes Michael Stusser of Osmosis Day Spa and founder of the Freestone Fermentation Festival, coming up on May 16.

Mouthful welcomes Edouard Rollet, co-founder of Alter Eco USA, who has just returned from a tour of Peru's Acopagro farming cooperative. When Edouard first appeared on Mouthful three years ago, he had just launched his line of fair trade products in the United States. Today, the company has added many new products, including the first-ever Fair Trade olive oil to carry carbon neutral certification. Fair Trade Day is coming up on May 9th.

Host Michele Anna Jordan discusses highlights of her recent trip to Hawaii while Lawrence, Mouthful's engineer, asks lots of questions.

Host Michele Anna Jordan and Lawrence Albert, Mouthful's engineer,

explore the philosophy of eating and not eating meat and take listener

calls on a variety of subjects. Plus, Lawrence gets a lesson in how to

cook asparagus and how to get the slime out of okra.

Mouthful goes to the birds with Dawn Russell of Ranch Hag Hens. If you've been thinking about getting a few chickens and want to know how or if you'd simply like to hear about how it all happens and where to get great eggs

Mouthful hits the road again, with a post-Katrina trip to New Orleans with chef Maria Viegas. And in honor of the grand tradition of street music in NOLA, members of Sonoma County's Jungle Love Orchestra provide live music and address the issue of Santa Rosa's restrictive noise ordance, which prohibits all types of spontaneous street musicianship.

Mouthful heads to sea with Tony and Carol Anello of Spud Point Crab Shack and The Annabelle, one of the working crab boats docked at Bodega Bay.

Clark Wolf discusses "American Cheese," his newly published book, and reveals secrets and passions from his earliest years. Don't miss this riveting hour with a culinary force of nature.