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-Cter-Castor with the splendid table.

Thank you. with the splendid table. Today, that consummate southern food historian John Teedge takes on fried chicken.

Now, it's a southern icon, and threatened by the wrath of Dixie, John actually tracks it north. He follows its trail

into the KFC bucket and back to the first African American women entrepreneurs. Well, the

Stearns have a gym in Cincinnati, Puts his creamy whip. Wine Maverick Josh Wesson has a hard sell

name with great flavor, Grunoviltliner. The Washington Post, TR. Reed, has infiltrated the private dining clubs of Japan,

and Gourmet Magazine's Ruth Reichel hits the Brooklyn hotspots with the New York Neighborhood Maven.

All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.

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