KRCB-FM: Mouthful

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.

Originally aired May 29, 2011 - Mouthful goes fishing with Carson Hunter and Jen Larsen of Carson's Catch. Carson and Jen are familiar faces at local farmers markets, where they sell their Bristol Bay wild Pacific King salmon. Yet as Carson heads to Bristol Bay next week for a season of fishing, the pristine region with one of the last remaining pristine salmon runs in the world is at risk. Hear all about the efforts to save Bristol Bay and Carson's upcoming fishing adventures.

Mouthful welcomes Kerry & Rex Williams of Williams Ranch in Sebastopol. Williams Ranch is best known for its Sonoma County lamb but there's something new, a delicious sheep's milk cheese that has just been released.

Mouthful welcomes Reverend Carol Himaka and Martin Shimizu of Sebastopol's Enmanji Buddhist Temple, along with additional guests involved in the upcoming 57th annual Chicken Teriyaki and Bazaar, taking place on July 10. For six decades, Japanese-Americans, their families, their friends and their neighbors have been coming from all over the Bay Area to attend one of summer's most enduring fetes. Mr. Shimizu has been a member of the temple since it was founded in 1934, when he was 6 years old. He'll discuss the history of the temple, including how it was saved from vandals and arsonist during World War II. Reverend Himaka will discuss the religious community and the history of building the temple and other guests will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the extensive preparations that go into making thousands of teriyaki dinners, each one delicious.

Tonight, I will be my own guest. I do this every now and then. I'll discuss farmers markets throughout Sonoma County, the garlic harvest, how to make your own pet food and whatever else comes up.

Mouthful heads to Europe--or, really, Europe heads to Mouthful--with Dominique Cortara of Dominque's Sweets, just back from Paris, and Fabiano Ramaci, a winemaker and chef who is offering his extraordinary paella at the Santa Rosa farmers market.

Mouthful's host Michele Anna Jordan welcomes Emmet and Lynda Hopkins and Charlotte, a 9-day-old Nubian dwarf goat, of Foggy River Farm, to talk about their family farm south of Healdsburg and Lynda's first book, The Wisdom of the Radish, released this spring by Sasquatch Books.

Mouthful goes fishing with Carson Hunter and Jen Larsen of Carson's Catch. Carson and Jen are familiar faces at local farmers markets, where they sell their Bristol Bay wild Pacific King salmon. Yet as Carson heads to Bristol Bay next week for a season of fishing, the pristine region with one of the last remaining pristine salmon runs in the world is at risk. Hear all about the efforts to save Bristol Bay and Carson's upcoming fishing adventures.

Mouthful welcomes Anne Fisher Silva of A New Leaf Nutrition and Jennifer Harris, executive director of the upcoming Freestone Fermentation Festival. It's all things deliciously and nutritiously bubbly!

Mouthful features an archive episode with local nutritionist Anne Fisher Silva and Peggy Fallon, founder and president of the Weston A. Price Foundation. This archive edition is essential background to an upcoming new interview with Anne, who will return to Mouthful this month to discuss her cooking classes and monthly presentations the Seed Bank in Petaluma. Listen to learn everything the mainstream media tells you about food may be wrong.

Mouthful visits with guests Condra Easley and Deborah Morris of Patisserie Angelica. The sisters, whose jewel of a bakery is located in Sebastopol, will talk about their recent TV appearances, their afternoon teas, specials for Mother's Day and their upcoming Cake Futures celebration.

Mouthful explores Passover, the Seder, what it means to keep kosher and related topics with writer Stephanie Rosenbaum and Meredith Cahn, a rabbinic intern with Santa Rosa's Congregation Shomrei Torah. Eric Black, Mouthful's new engineer, makes a very special contribution to the evening, as well.

Mouthful welcomes Anne Zimmerman, author of "An Extravagant Hunger," a narrative exploration of M. F. K. Fisher's passionate years. At a time when Fisher is misunderstood by the current community of so-called foodies, along comes Zimmerman's beautiful book to reveal the true power of Fisher's prose and life to a new generation.

Paula Downing, the manager of both the Santa Rosa and the Sebastopol farmers markets, is wearing two hats on this episode. In addition to talking about the markets, she discusses a new venture, SONOMA ALLIANCE FOR VEGIE OUTREACH REVOLUTION, aka SAVOR, a group of local individuals working to reach out to individual who use the CalFresh program, as the state's food stamp program is now know. Several of Downing's SAVOR colleagues join in the discussion.