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-Castro with the splendid table.

Thank you. Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. Today it's one man, a thousand-pound buffalo and a passel of hungry wolves and bears all on a mountainside in Alaska.

Now behind this is 14,000 years of the buffalo as dinner,

and we humans who hunted it. Naturalist and hunter, Steve Ronella, tells the tale in American

Buffalo in search of a lost icon. Well, the stern, stalking the essential Cajun breakfast,

end up at Cafe Desiomeme in Brobridge, Louisiana.

We've got the star legumes that you're going to want to have in your kitchen.

Then music critic Tom Moon has the food mood music we really need.

Music to clean up by.

All this on your calls coming up on The Splendid Table.

This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast.

Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. Our program is produced by American Public Media.

Well, today, it's naturalist and hunter Steve Rinella. Now, he talks about 14,000 years of the

American buffalo and the oldest connection that we have with our food, that is, as hunters.

Steve's book is American Buffalo in search of a lost icon.

Now, I have to confess something.

I am a bean geek.

The more obscure the bean, the more I lust after it.

And I have just met a comrade.

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