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, I'm Frances Lamb, and this is Splendable Selects, our mini podcast about the stuff that makes us better cooks and eaters.

Do you ever scroll through your Instagram feed and you're looking at all these gorgeous, perfect food photos?

And instead of feeling inspired, you just kind of feel bad.

Like, oh yeah, hey, that's cool.

Here is my salad that I bought.

It's in a plastic clamshell.

But take comfort.

You are not alone.

The British food writer, journalist, and historian, B. Wilson,

says one of life's greatest joys food and, have become fraught with anxiety and confusion.

She's a new book called The Way We Eat Now, and Shauna Seaver recently talked with her from London.

Have a listen.

Hi, B, thanks so much for talking with us.

Thanks so much for having me.

Now let's start with the title of your new book,

The Way We Eat Now. I want to know who is the we and what is the time frame of now. Those are very

good questions. I was really aware when I gave it that title that you could say, well, there is no

we because we all eat in such crazily divergent and different ways.

But the thought behind the book is that I suppose the now is the past five years, the past 10 years, the past 50 years,

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