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.

Thank you. It's Lynn Rosetta-Casper with the splendid table. Today it's a culinary contradiction, something that's hard to get your head around.

Vegan, soul food.

As in soul food without pork or fried chicken, Well, a gentle food activist, Bryant Terry,

takes the food of his childhood down a pretty timely path. His book is Vegan Soul Kitchen.

Well, for the Stearns, it's a Jack Kerouac hangout, the Eminem Cigar Store in Bute, Montana.

Cheese Maven Steve Jenkins brings us the cheeses that separate the dabblers from the fanatics.

Then it's a lover's grief ease by food without the usual schmaltz.

And we've got the big reveal.

The secret culinary codes that only the pros know.

All this and your calls coming up on the Splendid Table.

This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast. Hi, it's Lynne Rosetta Casper. You're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. Our program

is produced by American public media

and supported by Wiley, publishers of So Easy by Ellie Krieger. Simple nutritious recipes for

every meal of the week, So Easy by Ellie Krieger, available everywhere now for Mother's Day.

Well, today we talk with Brian Terry. Now, he's a cook who has

cleverly fused together his food politics and his heritage. Now, that's soul food with no

animal products. His book is Vegan Soul Kitchen, fresh, healthy, and creative African-American

cuisine.

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