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Yamato is basically a character itself. Not all shows personify the hero ship, but sometimes it is justified. The Millennium Falcon, the original USS Enterprise, and the remake Battlestar Galactic have personality from time to time. They get tempermental, they creak and groan under stress, and the really hard impacts can give an emotional responce from the crew and the audiance.
Yamato does the same. Though it tends to get two other things as well. Direct scorn from its enemies, and direct feeling of relief from those it comes to rescue.
As for the crew, we've not seen the Kitchen staff peeling potatoes, or making rice balls yet, but it could happen. Depends entirely on how their OMCS works behind he scenes. While the original worked by turning generic organic material into Earth food stuffs, the Kitchen staff still had to prepare meals from whatever the system gave them. I'm guessing the ship didn't carry tons of rice and potatoes normally, but had the OMCS process whatever materials it was given into raw potatoes, rice, meats, or whatever. So it was basically a Replicator, but may or may not be able to do finished products. (And there is no idea who came up with it on TV first...as the 1960s Star Trek food processor system seems extremely fast (suppose to be mini-turbolift from the galley that works similar to Yamato's OMCS), and the Animated Series seemed very replicator like. Plus by the films, the background materials would have the film Enterprise using transporters in the food processors...becoming, basically Replicators before the Next Generation came about).
I do know they had some specialty foods in reserve for special occasions. A few wine bottles, some real stakes and the like. For honored guests, or special staff dinners with the Admiral.
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