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.

Thank you. table. Well, today it's bliss for coffee lovers and those of us with control issues. Now,

if you want the very best cup of coffee, you need to roast it yourself. According to our guest, coffee roasting expert Kenneth Davids, you can do it at

home in eight minutes, no less. Well, the Stearns have found great saddles and fabulous beef burritos in

Billings, Montana. She of the ever-elegant, ever-simple culinary solution, Sally Schneider, talks

the mysterious quince, then it's everything you need to know about buying shrimp,

but didn't know to ask from food writer Olivia Wu, and an Indian master chef discovers

a cook's vision is not necessarily in the eyes. All this and your calls coming up on the

splendid table. But first this.

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