In most places in the world," she says, taking a schoolmarmish tone, "it's very exciting if you just have enough to eat and you've fed your family and you don't run out before everyone's had seconds".
Now that the yeast has gained a strong hold over your must, we need to seal it away from dangerous oxygen – that which once fed your yeast could now ruin your wine.
In the book's concluding scene, she describes herself issuing a lengthy silent curse over his casket as it is rolled outside: "I damn you for having lusted for prestige and for having fed your obscene ambitions at my expense".
But motherhood and food are inextricably linked, of course: even if you have no children, you are likely to have been fed your mother's milk, or sucked from a bottle she prepared; imbibing her beliefs about food, along with everything else, in a communion that existed long before Jesus did.
Zynga exploded on Facebook because every time you fed your goat, all your friends knew about it.
Whether you rocked your New Year's Eve Gangnam Style, fed your Bieber fever, or just took in a traditional Auld Lang Syne, there was an opportunity to get that music out of your smartphone and share it with the rest of the party.
