EditorialPapaya King at its longstanding location on the corner of 86th Street and Third Avenue in New York, July 2, 2022. (Emon Hassan/The New York Times)
EditorialNeon on the wall pays tribute to the Thai mortar used to pound green papaya into submission, at Zaab Zaab in Elmhurst, Queens, June 20, 2022. (Adam Friedlander/The New York Times)
EditorialWorld: The papaya, papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, the sole species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae.
EditorialLaurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain's longtime assistant, outside Gray’s Papaya on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, which makes an appearance in “World Travel: An Irreverent Guide” by Bourdain and Woolever, April 1, 2021. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialLaurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain's longtime assistant, outside Gray’s Papaya on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, which makes an appearance in “World Travel: An Irreverent Guide” by Bourdain and Woolever, April 1, 2021. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
Editorial'Hans Sloane' Plate, Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, established ca. 1743/45, Georg Dionysius Ehret, German, 1708 - 1770, soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamels, A plate with a wavy, brown-edged rim, painted with a papaya (Carica papaya), two s...
EditorialThe chef Boonnum Thongngoen pounds chiles, limes and other aromatics in a mortar to make papaya salads and other cold dishes, at Thai Cook in Queens, Dec. 28, 2019. (Jenny Huang/The New York Times)