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.
The story is narrated by Sally's unnamed older brother, but perhaps the main character in the book is the Cat in the Hat himself. Sally and her brother's mom appears in the beginning and at the end of the book, and they also have a worrisome pet goldfish, referred to only as Fish.