If the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas, the flap of a private jet at Le Bourget can have repercussions for a rice farmer in Thailand… Our food, globalised and commoditised, is at the mercy of a system of organised shortages that gives the illusion of abundance, and where overproduction benefits a minority, supported by the political class, who gorge themselves on the backs of the working classes. The house is on fire, and they’re watching the timer to see when it’s cooked! Yet food is a powerful tool for social transformation, essential to the class struggle, which is also a struggle of the pots and pans.

From ministers’ feasts to food aid, from truffle burgers to land grabbing, from the patenting of living organisms to the monopoly on good taste, not forgetting grossophobia, agri-business, the Nutri-score and health scandals, food is a pleasure for those who can afford it, but it is also an instrument of power and coercion, leaving the most disadvantaged hungry… Nora Bouazzouni asks the killer question: what if the time had come to eat the rich?

Eating the rich means feasting on their privileges, attacking the disease rather than the symptoms, finding a recipe for a fairer world for everyone. And what’s more, it’s zero waste.