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-Castor with The Splendid Table. table. Well, today you get permission to sniff your dinner. I mean, look, send accounts for most of

what we taste. So isn't it logical that a perfumer would team with a chef? We talk with

perfumer Mandy Aftel about her new book, Aroma,

the magic of essential oils in food and fragrance. While the Stearns have found a sixth way with

Cincinnati's famous five-way chili, we have a story of two chefs, an exalted restaurant,

and a trial by tragedy. We hear what happens when a lab geek takes on liquid nitrogen and ice cream.

Then it's how to eat good and cheap in Japan with Washington Post Bureau Chief T.R. Reed

and dining out in your jammies.

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

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