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 the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media.

I'm Francis Lamb.

Whenever life begins to crush me, I know I can rely on Bandol,

garlic, and moxan.

That's Mario Batali, reading from the work of his friend,

the writer Jim Harrison, who was so good at reminding us again and again in his writing

that when we talk about food,

we talk about life.

It's about what we need or what we want or what we long for.

It's what keeps our cultures beating.

And so with that in mind, this week we'll hear more from Mario about Jim,

and we'll look at the women who invented modern food media before anyone called it food media.

And I'll talk with Chris Thiele, the host of a prairie home companion, about the complex emotions of food and music.

All that, this hour, on the splendid table.

This is the splendid table from APM American Public Media, a show for curious cooks and eaters.

I'm Francis Lamb.

Music A show for curious cooks and eaters. I'm Francis Lamb. This week, we're looking at what we really talk about when we talk about food.

Because, you know, it's never just about what goes between our teeth.

Someone who really understood that was the writer Jim Harrison, who died in 2016.

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