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.

Consider this.

You feast on a chef's fabulous food or you marvel at one teaching on the tube,

but do you ever wonder what it took to learn all that?

Our guest, the legendary Jacques Pepin, tells how he left home at 13 to apprentice 12 hours a day for no pay. His new memoir is the apprentice, my life

in food. While the sterns are at the gnawbone food and fuel in Indiana, professional taster

David Rosengarten brings us the Catherine Zeta Jones of canned tunas.

Then our cheese guy Steve Jenkins riffs on the misbegotten mozzarella.

And master theorist James Peterson talks the three things every rookie cook should know.

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

But first, this.

Thank you.

We're going to get home tonight.

We're going to get out to it.

You are on tonight.

We should go to.

We should go too. I woke up this is going to I woke up this moment

Yeah in the hospital baby

Oh the nurse looking down at me

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