“In this particular work, the student produced a paper for me in business associations but had also asked if I would be available at a specific time for the delivery of another element of the project. When it arrived, it was a pizza in a pizza box, still hot from the oven. I walked down the hall, sharing pieces of pizza with my colleagues, before I started to read the paper. As I read the paper, the student discussed his exploration of what would be necessary in order to take seriously local economies by figuring out how to produce a pizza that was sourced entirely from materials available on Vancouver Island. What was particularly interesting was that, as I ate the pizza, I thought to myself “oh it could have used a few other minutes in the oven” because the cheese was not as melty as I would ordinarily prefer. As I headed to the paper, there was a large discussion of the processes he had been involved in in order to make cheese from milk available on the Island and the ways which, given the sources available to him, he could only produce a cheese that had a certain chewiness to it in that it would not melt sufficiently. And so, there was a very embodied experience of feeling in my mouth the experience that he described in his paper of what kinds of losses would be necessary if one were to take seriously fully the demands of what is available in the economy in which we live.”