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The Papaya Thief: Stories Beyond the Kitchen
Read more: The Papaya Thief: Stories Beyond the KitchenDear Big-Clouded Planet, I’m writing to invite you to follow another Substack—fashionably late, but here we go. The Papaya Thief started as a blog in my early chef days at Casa Isleña, a small inn in Rincón, Puerto Rico, where I’d drive up the hill before dinner service and shake green papayas off the tree…