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.

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It's the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media. I'm Lynn Rosetta-Casper. Think about food photography.

The luscious food porn style shot is always going to be with us. It's irresistible.

But new points of view are turning food pictures into unexpected experiences. I can't tell you how

many food photographs I see from Instagram and Twitter. There's

like 380 million photos uploaded on Facebook daily, and most of those are with mobile phones.

So the common language that we all have is, what are we eating? Food photographer Penny de los Santos.

You know, literally and figuratively, photography's always given us a

picture of a time. We'll stick around for this and our latest key three chef this hour on the

splendid table. This is the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat.

I'm Lynne R Rosetta, Casper.

Food photographer, Penny de los Santos often takes a particular kind of picture.

You see the food, but you see and feel the people whose food it is.

You get their place in the world.

I feel like I can walk into her pictures.

Well, Penny's an award-winning photographer.

She works with National Geographic and Savoor Magazine, does cookbooks,

and much more. Penny, welcome. Good to have you with us. Thank you. I'm excited to be here.

You recently did a TED talk that I saw, and it was about food photography, and in it you described a dinner.

You had flown thousands of miles to photograph that dinner.

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