In winter, you want to boil things. You wear boiled wool and boiled hides, eat boiled meat, sip boiled soup, boiled vegetables, boiled bones, you stand inside rooms thick with steamed, boiled air. Everything is softened, extracted, made dense. Boiling thickens and preserves. In spring, you want dryness, dried fruit, dry wine, dry cider, dry beer, things light, crisp, aired out after the long heat of winter