Barter or Bribe - Food is Serious Business

Food costs never really decrease, and finding good and/or healthy food has become more and more challenging. Good food, you can find. Healthy food, you can also find, but finding something that is both? Good luck. You have a better chance at seeing a literal unicorn, a genetically engineered one, but still...
Most people are too lazy or busy to procure their own food, resorting to frozen meals, whatever cafeterias cook up, or take-out. Cooking as a science or an art is something that most simply choose not to engage in, so the allure of a home-cooked meal, or a personal specialty is particularly high. In some instances, food can even be used as a form of payment or bribery.
Be it Michelle's or Mrs Harrison's cupcakes, nearly anything Cocoa-Baguettes cooks up, or the somewhat tasty experiments of budding chefs, food with soul has a price that very much rivals currency, able to procure services, favors, and some things in between.