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.

Hey, it's Frances Lamb. Thanks so much for downloading our podcast.

This week, we're also bringing you more of the conversation I had with Zoe

Ejano. She's a chef with a restaurant and cookbook, both called Zoe's Ghana Kitchen, and she's

just bowling Londoners over. She is incredibly charming, and it's, in fact, the only person

to ever answer our standard mic check question of what'd you have for breakfast with an honest reply,

coffee and a cigarette.

In our show, we talked about the basics of Ghanaian food, but here we got into why she started cooking in the first place.

I hope you enjoy it.

So hi, Zoe. Thanks so much for coming in.

Hey, how are you? Thank you for having me.

I want to talk to you about Ghana, because you were there when you were a young child.

You spent a few years there.

But you grew up in London.

Your father is Ghanaian and your mother is Irish.

Yeah.

And you learn, before you get to Ghana, you learn to cook Ghanian food.

It seemed sort of on your own.

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