Last month, when in Italy, the buffalo mozzarella I ate was like a totally different animal. One quality set it apart from any I'd had in the States. Perhaps it was because I was in Salerno, in Campania, in the region best known for mozzarella di bufala, that I tasted these most superlative versions.
Summary: The Catbird Seat by James Thurber is about Mr. Martin who has decided he must kill Mrs Barrows because she is destroying the firm he works for, but in the end he tricks his boss into thinking she has had a mental breakdown.
His Cabbages and Kings (1904) is the origin of the term banana republic.. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut largely takes place in a fictional banana republic, the island of San Lorenzo. Joseph Conrad's 1904 novel Nostromo is set in Costaguana, a fictional South American banana republic that is also prone to revolution. Much political power is held by a foreign mining company.