KRCB-FM: Mouthful

On Mouthful's first episode of the new year, host Michele Anna Jordan welcomes the three whip-smart and hilariously funny women who founded Not Yer Momma's, a handmade granola company in Santa Rosa, as they prepare to expand their young company into the retail arena. For a good time, listen to this episode of Mouthful, the Wine Country's Most Delicious Hour.

This week Mouthful talks with Bob Klein and Craig Pondsford about their latest project - Community Grains. Bob Klein has been a broadcast television producer, executive producer, national program consultant, and developer/syndicator. He’s currently co-owner of Oliveto Restaurant and founder of Community Grains. Craig Pondsford is founder of Artisan Bakery, winner of the Specialty Breads category of France’s 1996 Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie (an international, invitational, artisan baking competition held in Paris every three to four years). He recently opened Pondsford’s Place Bakery & Innovation Center in San Rafael, CA.

This week - a lively episode of Mouthful, with Randy Fertel, author of the new "Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir." Randy is the son of legendary steak house founder Ruth Fertel of Ruth's Chris Steak House. Don't miss this story of a single mother, a mortgage and a worldwide chain of restaurants.

Mouthful welcomes Ron Karp of Food For Thought, Sonoma County's AIDS & HIV Food Bank, along with guests from several Sonoma County restaurants participating in Dining Out For Life, taking place this year on World AIDS Day, December 1. Dining Out for Life is an easy way to support Food For Thought's essential services.

Mouthful welcomes John Toulze, executive chef of The Girl & the Fig and Estate of Sonoma and The Fig Cafe of Glen Ellen, and talks about the gardens that provide produce for the restaurants, his salumi program, the restaurant's new Rhone-style white wine and more.

Mouthful welcomes members of 4-H and Slow Food Russian River to talk about the heritage turkey program and its upcoming fete. Joining in are Rachel Hoff and Tom Ferguson of Dog Island Farm in Vallejo. Rachel and Tom are in the midst of a year-long project that involves producing all of their own food. The couple raises bees, chickens, rabbits, turkeys and goats and has sworn to purchase no groceries for the duration of their experiment in farming. It's local farming at its best and most interesting.

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.

In a special archive edition of Mouthful, we hear about Williams Ranches, inheritors of Bruce Campbell's enormously successful style of raising Sonoma County lamb.

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.