All I can think of is food

Psalm 107:  This is the first psalm of Book V of the Psalms, a community thanksgiving written in  clearly defined stanzas, and without a superscription. That's all fine and good, but somehow when I read the 43 verses of this psalm today, the references to food jumped out at me. Now I'm a well-fed (maybe even over-fed) Canadian, and I haven't experienced hunger in any way except as an inconvenience, so why this obsession with food? But it's everywhere in this psalm, beginning with v. 4 where those wandering in the desert faint from lack of food and later God helps them, and "fills them with good things." v. 9.  In the third stanza, a thanksgiving of those healed and forgiven, the wicked are being described as sick and afflicted, unable to eat (v. 18), and near death. In the thanksgiving of those saved from the dangers of the sea, the sailors are described as staggering like drunkards (v. 27), probably from the effects of sea sickness. And then in the concluding hymn of praise, God is described as turning springs into thirsty ground and fruitful land into salty waste (v. 33), the opposite of nourishment, because of wickedness, while the faithful receive pools of water and life by sowing crops and planting vineyards (v. 35-37). Even the cattle thrive, and the people multiply, most likely because they don't have to worry about hunger and starvation. God provides for the needy and hungry, and what better metaphor than nourishment and sustenance to understand the faithfulness and greatness of God.