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Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna 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.

Hey, I'm Frances Lamb, and this is Splendid Table Select,

our mini podcast about the stuff that makes us better cooks and eaters.

Okay, imagine you're making a recipe. Step one says get 10 potatoes. Step two says throw four of them away.

You'd be pretty annoyed, right? That's a bad recipe. But

here in the U.S., research shows that we actually do waste almost 40% of our entire food supply.

Now, to be fair, a lot of that is industrial waste, but have a look around your compost bin.

And you might find plenty of stuff that still has good life left in it. That's where Mads Rethland and Tama Matsuoka Wong come in.

Mads is a Danish chef and a pioneer of New Nordic cuisine.

Tama is a reformed lawyer who became a forager.

Together, they wrote scraps, wilt, and weeds, turning wasted food into plenty,

and our contributor, Melissa Clark spoke with both of them about their approach to trash cooking. Have a listen.

Mads, Tama, welcome to the show. Thanks for having us. Thank you. So tell me, what is trash cooking?

So I think trash cooking is cooking from things that we would normally throw away.

So, for example, peals of vegetables, stems of broccoli, coffee grounds, weeds.

So all these roots, all these stems, all these scales from fish, fish eyes, fish heads,

or whatever you could find of throwing away, we tested it.

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