Santo Prosciutto

Santo Prosciutto

Santo Prosciutto is a fictional island in the (also fictional) Italian West Indies, acquired by Italy in exchange for part of its colonial possessions in Ethiopia. The island was created in the writings of the columnist Calvin Trillin; ["Third Helpings," Ticknor and Fields 1983, p. 126 ff.] it is sometimes used by economists as an example small country, [http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/michael.gibbs/teaching/Micro/2006%20Final.doc] and is cited approvingly by the New York Times’s food writer, Craig Claiborne. [New York Times [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E3DF1638F934A25757C0A965948260 April 17, 1983] ]

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