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.

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 a lineup of characters, some would say masters, from the food and wine worlds with a little grazing thrown in. Southern food historian

John T. Edge questions why Craig Claiborne never got the national recognition he deserved. Now,

he's one of the reasons we eat Mexican one day and Chinese the next. Wine journalist Paul Lucas

has the story of three Spanish winemakers who dared to go to the place where no winemaker had gone before.

A road food duo, Jane and Michael Stern, are grazing on both coasts, no less.

And as usual, we're going to be talking to you.

You can reach us at 800, 537-52-52.

All the finger-wagging that we're seeing about the state of our food got shoved aside recently

by the sheer delight of eating with the movie Julian Julia.

Now, in case you miss the memo, it's about how food changed the lives of two women,

the Julia Child of France in the 1940s and the Julie Powell of Queens, New York in 2007.

One of my favorite food types brought this baby to the screen, writer and director Nora Ephron,

and I have got her on the phone.

Nora, welcome.

Hey, Lynn.

How are you, girl?

I'm so excited to be doing this.

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