Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.

We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.

Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.

It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table.

Today it's back to when flamingo tongues were normal finger food and boiling water was a sign your morals were slipping.

Our guest is food historian Patrick Fas, author of Around the Roman Table, Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome.

Then it's decadence and beefcake, road food style, submarine sandwiches, and their makers in Atlantic City with the Stearns.

Sally Schneider tells why she can't live without her rock, her mortar and pestle, food writer Ted Lee is stalking

the next big taste, and winemaker Randall Graham introduces us to his news, a Frenchman

whose wines are not about taste. All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.

But first, this.

Now sit up straight, Kate.

It's time to eat peep.

Have a banana, Hannah.

Try the salami, Tommy.

Get with the gravy davy.

Everybody eats when they come to my house.

Try a tomato plato.

Here's cacciatore dory.

Taste the bologna tony.

Everybody eats when they come to my house.

I fix your favorite dishes hoping this good food fills you work my hands to the bone in the kitchen alone you better eat if it kills you pass me a pancake mandrate sample a. Sample a Taco Paco.

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