> The reality is that in most municipalities you cannot simply cook food in your kitchen and sell it.

Lots of stuff sold at food co-ops and farmers' markets skirt these rules and no one bats an eye. Yet they're doing pretty much the same thing as Airbnb and Uber -- performing valuable services while entering questionable regulatory territory.

It's weird how baking pies in your own kitchen and selling them is considered a very wholesome activity, yet using your own car to drive people around is somehow objectionable.