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. table.

Today it's the politics of wine.

Our guest is Bruce Cass, co-editor of the Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America.

He claims it's easier for a 13-year-old to buy a gun on the Internet than it is for an adult to purchase a bottle of wine.

And it all comes down to politics.

Polar Explorers and Bancroft and Leave Arneson will be calling in from their tent near the South Pole to talk food.

They are halfway through their attempt to ski across the continent of Antarctica.

Jane and Michael Stern are eating Hawaiian plate lunches in San Diego,

and cheese expert Steve Jenkins talks butter with culture.

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

But first this.

Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, with Kitchen Chronicles,

where knowledge is power and cooking is pleasure,

a practical guide to nourishing ourselves and the people we care about.

Today, I'd like to talk about fennel, both the vegetable and the seed.

I think they're overlooked by a lot of people because they don't know how to use them.

So here's a few ideas.

First, let's figure out how to identify fennel. the vegetable is sometimes labeled anus probably because it has a

subtle sweet taste of anise what's interesting here is that a lot of people who don't like the

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