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 Francis Lamb, and this is Weeknight Kitchen with Melissa Clark.

If this is your first time with us, Weeknight Kitchen is a new podcast from The Splendid Table that brings you straight into the kitchen of New York Times food writer Melissa Clark.

In every episode, you're attached to Melissa at the hip, as she works through one of her

favorite weeknight recipes and teaches us some great cooking insights along the way.

This is just one episode, Weeknight Kitchen, and you can get plenty more by subscribing

to the Weeknight Kitchen feed in your favorite podcast app.

Just search for Weeknight Kitchen and hit the subscribe button.

And like I said, Melissa actually makes her living right in my food, but just like anyone else,

sometimes she just needs to cook for her mom.

Mom? Yes. Hi. Hi. Hi.

So listen, I was thinking of making you some rice pudding and bringing it over over the weekend.

What do you think?

Oh, I love rice pudding.

That would be wonderful.

Okay, good.

So I was just going to do the regular rice pudding that I usually do the lemon rice pudding with the vanilla.

Is that the one you like?

I like that one, and I also like it with cinnamon and nutmeg and, you know, a variety of things.

Okay.

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