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“How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?”

Food Cooking Dry Culinary Wet Slipping Martini

Author:Noel Coward

“My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!”

Light Earth Water Fire Magic Air Food Taste Glory My Family Weight Cooking Our Family Meat Dry Culinary Wet Masculine Wheat Seductive Velvet Airy Flour Stout Dumplings

Author:Robert P. T. Coffin

“You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.”

Feels Sometimes Pieces Food Cooking Bread Culinary Wet Damp Bread And Butter Cucumbers Handkerchiefs

Author:Compton Mackenzie

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”

Thinking Nice Food Judging Rain Cooking Fishes Culinary Wet

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”

Food Picks Red Argument Cooking Cups Dawn Culinary Wet Dew Berries Red Lipstick

Book:Farming: A Hand Book

Source: Farming: A Hand Book

“Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.”

People Wells Life Is Half Middle Food Breakfast Yellow Wet Galaxy Life Is Like Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Grapefruit Ford Prefect H2g2

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.”

Needs Humans Heart Littles Important Night Sound Brain Morning Food Hot Cooking Familiar Kitchen Culinary Warmth Wet Human Heart Comforting Sock

Author:E. B. White

“Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.”

Food Clothes Cooking Beer Dry Culinary Wet Martini

Author:Mae West

“Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.”

Needs Years Problem House Grows Easy Sin Food Source Originals Cooking Smell Be Good Improvement Ruins Meals Culinary Pot Vegetables Wet Nasty Foul Original Sin Cabbage Greenery

Book:Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

Source: Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”

Needs Feels Night Food Cold Safe Warm Wet Soup

Author:Laurie Colwin