To be fair, I think the time and effort those Japanese chefs dedicated into the plating and the execution of the food justifies its price. On the other side, processed-food industry manipulates our taste buds and exploits our biology to keep us eating foods that make us feel lousy. Polishing off a sleeve of cookies when you're barely hungry isn't a personal moral failing — it's a carefully engineered result. I think how much of the way we may relate to food is not about our health so much as our culturally indoctrinated fear of being fat. The western obsession with demonizing food- and demonizing the simple pleasure of eating an amazing meal- leads to an unhealthy cycle of gluttony followed by deprivation, driven by wildly unbalanced meals. Agree or Disagree? I welcome your opinion to challenge mine.