The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen Americans eat some 20 billion bananas a year, more than apples and oranges combined. But it wasn’t always so—at ...

This is an excerpt from Rich Cohen's "The Fish That Ate the Whale." Samuel Zemurray, known variously as the Russian, the Gringo and Sam the Banana Man, is the story of the American century — the best ...

The story of how a banana tycoon, Samuel Zemurray, was brought down by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s powerful fictional indictment of United Fruit, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Rich Cohen on the unlikely ...