My guest today is Megan McCormick. For several years, Megan was one of the spectacular presenters on a series that went by a variety of names depending on where you were watching in the world: Globe Trekker, Pilot Guides or Lonely Planet TV, which of course, was associated with the popular travel guides. If you’ve enjoyed Andrew Zimmern for his culinary bravado, Anthony Bourdain for his fates-be-damned intellect or Rick Steves for his academic frugality, you watched Megan to see how much fun and enlightening it could be to roam the globe. She was last featured on a series called Sea Nation, in which she dropped off the hamster wheel to shift that fun to island hopping.

But, most related to our favorite topic, if you’ve not seen Megan dive into Sichuan hotpot, replete with tongue-numbing peppercorns, you’ve not lived. Here’s our chat.