As Steve Kado writes, "The Restaurant" is a fable of our own metabolic moral economy, a world-inside-a-stomach populated by embodied libidinal forces both earthly and celestial. Benedict and Jørgensen zoom in directly on the hot locus where grotesque global inequality meets our daily lives – namely the food experience. How else to name the transformation of the most basic metabolic process, something fundamental to life since our mono-cellular ancestors drifted in plasmal seas, to an activity so overdetermined that in order to eat we need not just food but: the entire apparatus of the internet, with it’s heavy breathing servers; all the ink and paper that newspapers, books, and guides use up; all the air, water and calories we burn thinking; a state, with laws to defend our property, and militarized squads to enact and reinforce those laws; and finally, all the hours of time and effort we spend deciding and evaluating where, how and with what our experience is to be had.