 How does Winkelmann justify his critical stance towards Bailey's cooking?
Should any groundsman dispute the importance of belly-furniture in history—whether it be exterminating whales, or introducing syphilis to the Fiji Islanders, or settling the Australian littoral with cross-coves from Middlesex and Hampshire—he is referred to the hundred-and-first chapter of Moby Dick , a book spooled in the amusement tanks of all but the smallest spacers. The Japanese vessel staggered to her pad at Piano West after a twenty-week drunk: the alien yeast had got into the stomach of every man aboard, where it fermented each subsequent bite he ate to a superior grade of sake . Cooking aboard a spacer is a job combining the more frustrating tensions of biochemistry, applied mycology, high-speed farming, dietetics and sewage engineering. It's the Cook's responsibility to see that each man aboard gets each day no less than five pounds of water, two pounds of oxygen, and one-and-a-half pounds of dry food. By allowing a colony of Chlorella algae to work over our used air, water and other effluvia, though, three tons of metabolites would see us through from Brady Station to Piano West and back. If the Prussians had a Marine Corps, Winkelmann would have done splendidly as Drill Instructor for their boot camp. It was Winkelmann who saw humorous possibilities in the entry, "Bailey, Robert," on Ship's Articles. And it was Captain Willy Winkelmann who never referred to the ship's head by any other name than The Kitchen Cabinet.
 It compels Bailey to be more creative with his resources
 It motivates Bailey to seek the approval of his shipmates  It prevents Bailey from becoming apathetic in the kitchen  It compels Bailey to be more creative with his resources  It builds Bailey's character and makes him more resilient