As we spoke, Castro was peeling a quail egg, then placing it in a spoon, which he dipped into a consommé.
His only equipment, apart from rubber-soled boots, was a bag of chalk slung at the back of his belt, into which he dipped his hands to dry the sweat and improve his grip.
Then came "Dial M for Murder" (1952-53) and "The Teahouse of the August Moon" (1953-56), for which he dipped cloth in bathtubs filled with various dyes to achieve what he considered Asian color combinations.
The question is whether 'Mr Belize' with £800m in his piggy bank - which he dips into for Tory campaigns in marginal seats - could still, incredibly, be a tax exile?
Dave is a friendly filmmaker, husband, and father of two who enjoys quality time with his wife, gathering firewood, and collecting life-sized dolls in which he dips his dingus.
Jeffers is clearly not a conceptual artist, but he likes playing around with concepts, perhaps most notably in his recent series of what he calls "dipped portraits", beautiful paintings in oil on canvas, complete and carefully executed, which he then dips in enamel, obscuring the image underneath.
He came up with a way to assemble the cookies using his own chocolate and meringue, and vanilla wafers imported from Sweden, which he also dips in the chocolate.
Well, tickets will no doubt be deflation-busting, and sold out within seconds, but Simon Boccanegra, in which he is dipping his toe into baritone waters, will get big screen airings.
And in September, Scarborough will see the premiere of a new Ayckbourn play, Roundelay, for which he has again dipped into his bag of theatrical tricks in his career-long attempt to find new ways to tell a story.
The next frame depicts his own hand holding a pen, which he tries to dip in an ink bottle.
(Incidentally, assumptions that Schwarzenegger is absent from this latest one have proved wide of the mark; he has a brief but violent cameo for which he appears to have been dipped in flesh-coloured latex).
