He paints his childhood as the heir to a German condensed-milk fortune as somewhere between Downton Abbey and Bletchley Park.
But that's how it was for her and other women in Isiolo, a small town in northern Kenya, before camel milk changed their fortunes.
Under the brutal dictatorship of a shameless despot (who has milked his $70 billion fortune from the bread money of Egyptian peasants), they have suffered quietly for over 30 years.
Mr. Borden made his fortune supplying condensed milk to the Union Army in the Civil War.
Christian Lagerfeld, his father, made a fortune in condensed milk; his mother, Elisabeth, played the violin.
The second is that of an all-nourishing Mother Rice (Me Posop), who is the guardian of crops and good fortune and whose milk is rice which is considered to be the soul-stuff of every living thing.
From Eva Longoria and Charlize Theron to Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus, a handful of celebrities left behind their corn-picking, motorbike riding, cow milking lifestyles for fame and fortune.
Simple products can be hugely successful: think of the fortunes made from cardboard milk cartons and Post-It notes.
In the intervening years, Foster has milked his fame and indulged his fortune, becoming, first, a dissolute celebrity, and then a celebrated recluse.
The bags of milk powder represent a startling reversal of fortune for the dairy industry, which flourished in recent years in part because of a growing appetite for milk, cheese, ice cream and pizza in places like Mexico, Egypt and Indonesia.
