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...gives beer shelf life but that, Mason and other purists feel, "heat shocks" the beer and ruins its flavor. (Control of bacteria is not a factor -- the alcohol does that -- but cold-filtered, unpasteurized beer should be stored at cool temperatures and should be drunk within three months. Like bread, beer is really good only when it is fresh. Virtually all imported beer must be pasteurized to survive the lengthy shipping process. In the U.S., most mass- market beer is pasteurized, except for Coors and a variety of draft beers...
...From early morning," Skarmeta's Neruda says, "the ocean begins its fantastic way of rising. It seems to be kneading an endless loaf of bread...
Italy was also hit by the brutal winter blitz. In Venice pigeons pecked vainly for bread crumbs on the white-mantled Piazza San Marco, and blankets of snow decked the prows of unused gondolas. The southern regions were battered by gale-force winds that transformed the Naples waterfront into a tangle of wrecked boats and knocked out power lines in Sardinia. Throughout Italy weather conditions caused at least six deaths and several billion dollars' worth of property damage...
Despite the kudos her work has won, Fisher's subject is still considered by many people to be lower literary ground. To such a criticism she had an early answer: "There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me, Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love...
...Muffin by the latest bank in the Square didn't alarm me. The growing infestation of mercantile marauders stirred in me no more than a vague feeling of camaraderie with the old men that wander shopping malls shaking their heads at VCRs and two-dollar loaves of bread...