The film deftly gets audiences to switch allegiance from Zuckerberg to Savarin to Parker through the course of the plot, as eureka moment turns into start-up, turns into bitter court battle.
To help us understand this greater importance, Gopnik touches on deeper themes involving the regularities of dining, our fundamental relationships with food, and theories from gastronomic writers like Alexandre Grimod de La Reyniere and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.