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.

Music the splendid table.

Today we have a special show for you from New York City.

Gourmet magazine invited us to do a stage show to kick off their Gourmet Institute weekend,

a gathering of experts of every stripe.

Well, we got them together on the stage of the Museum of Television and Radio.

Now, you're going to hear Gourmet Executive Editor John Willoughby talk to the New York food scene with the city's Captain Ahab of chefs, David Pasternak.

We're teaming the bad boy and the perfectionist, chefs Anthony Borgaine and Thomas Keller.

Then it's two critics who have made many a chef squirm, Gail Green and Ruth Reichel,

and we have the man who pioneered the new craze for impeccably aged cheeses.

Isan Gertel.

All this coming up on the splendid table.

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