The Downings' world looked different from ours, but the patterns repeat. Today, sanctuary cities protect immigrants from federal enforcement, just as the Underground Railroad protected runaways from slave catchers. Today, communities organize rapid-response networks when ICE arrives, just as abolitionists organized to warn when slave catchers came to town. The Downings show that food businesses can be revolutionary spaces. A restaurant can feed bodies and fuel movements. A kitchen can nourish resistance. The simple act of serving meals can become an act of defiance.