Episode 3: Would you eat that?

November 28, 2025
In this delicious episode, Bobby Chinn - chef, restauranteur, and global tv food expert joins Ian and Justine to discuss? Food of course, and not just any food, but those unique and protein rich dishes that Globe Trekker loved so much. As our intrepid duo relive their most challenging mouthfuls, Bobby reveals the history and meaning behind some of the world’s most traditional dishes. So, dig in. It’s going to be truly scrumptious!

Tell us your food stories.

00:00 Food food food!
01:02 Black Death
04:02 Spaghetti to eyeballs
07:10 Bobby Chinn: Interesting Man
08:27 Anthony Bourdain was a fan of Globe Trekker
10:29 The maggot: boy, that guy’s got some balls
14:22 Bat-O-Rific
17:34 Bloody good
18:42 “I’d never seen an animal be killed for me.”
21:28 “Who wants my cuy?”
22:53 The beetle: a chemical explosion
25:59 Street markets: fast-track to understanding a culture
27:36 Man’s best friend
33:30 “Tastes a little bit like spam”
36:48 Trying to find where the eyeball is
39:01 “East” vs “West”: I couldn’t live without cheese
41:51 Flexitarian
44:22 Snook, squab, and a slug in a rock
45:44 Tarantula farm
47:49 Again Black Death
50:19 A huge barrier to cross
53:35 “The man who they cooking”
57:22 Ciao!

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Episode Cast & Crew

Hosts: Ian Wright and Justine Shapiro
Guest: Bobby Chinn
Producer: Stephen Lennhoff
Editor: Gregory Scharpen
Sound Mix: Dan Olmsted

Kuku Studios, Berkeley, California USA
Haverhill Music Hub, Haverhill UK

Major Funding

Season 1 was made possible thanks to a grant from The Khosravi Family Trust. 

Our Loonies

Mrugesh Thaker
Joseph Tindle
Prateek Shrivastava
Rajeev
Mike Matera
John Miles
Nikhil Patel
Saurabh Chaudhary
Craig Richardson

Bhavika Gadhvi
Joe Guzman
Heather Munro
Robert Paul
Ignacio Gil
Abigail
Richard Logan
Era Orozco
James Wheaton
Melanie Rudzinski
Cliff Matheson
José Pizarro-Otero
Rob Furber

Season 1 Credits

With gratitude to those from Pilot Films and Television, UK who helped create Our Looney Planet

Ian Cross, founder of Pilot Productions and creator of the Lonely Planet / Globe Trekker TV series.

Deb Marrow Cox
Anne Bogart
Sarah Blinco
Sanyukta Shrestha
Helen Roberts
Richard Howard
Chris Hampson
Amanda Kramer
Ian Ritchie
Neville Farmer

Megan McCormick
Emma Cahusac
Angela Gourley
Rachael Heaton-Armstrong
Andy Margetson 
Lucy Cooke 
Bini Adams  
David Tibballs 
Saami Sabiti

Nick Robbins
Nigel Kinnings
Lynn Mitchell
Georgie Burrell
Neil Harvey
Simon Niblett
Ian sciacaluga
Rik Lander 
Peter Boyd Maclean
Tim Knight

With gratitude

Rachel Mercy Simpson, Berkeley Community College
Interns: Seungjun Kim, Martin Mercy, Matan Ziv, Manny Cox

Betsy Rate, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Interns: Negar Ajayebi, Alicia Chang, Zane Karram and Fuwad Ahamad

Rob Burchell, The Hall Media Facilities, UK

Honorbarre.com
Cardiowithcarah.com
The Center for Creative Exploration

Jeanette McDonald-Wright 
Rie Aldous
Jackie Shroff
Tony & Chesney Mumford
Marvin and Mr. Monk
Paul Mourey & Karim Crippa
David Orelowitz & Lauren Heymann 
Vicente Franco
Jim Capobianco

Lucy Kaplan
Mateo Evaristo Shapiro Bolado
y Carlos Bolado
Tony Cataldo
Carah Herring
Année Kim
Stephanie Mackley
Marcia and Paul Masse
Paul Zaentz
Chaz Blanc

Michael Wilson
Mick Erausquin
Elizabeth Gray
Catherine Girardeau
Jason Reinier
Roopa Ramamoorthi
Laura O'Brien Crisp
Guy Reingold
Esme Agilar
Sonia Mistry
Sherry Sly
Claudia Erzinger

With Gratitude To Those We’ve Lost

Jonathan Leffman, Sound Recordist
Stephen Luscombe, Composer
Paul Pierre Standifer, Fixer/Producer
Leslie Weiner, Producer
Roger Whitby, Sound Recordist
Nick Corey Wright, Director
Anthony Bourdain

For MATLANA

Executive Producer: Justine Shapiro
Series Producer: Liliana Cortés
Producer & Editor: Gregory Scharpen
Producer & Editor: Thomas Lorne
Producer: Stephen Lennhoff

Title Animation - Zazie Capobianco, Aerial Contrivance Workshop
Media Management & Website: Sage Brucia
Bookkeeper: Craig Paull
Fundraising Strategist: Bri Castellini
Legal: Richard J. Lee Law Group and Madison Karsenty, DCP Law

Produced by MATLANA a 501(c)3 organization

MATLANA Board Members

Deirdre English
Jocelyn Leroux
Jena Resner
Justine Shapiro