Article: Papaya's perfect for a summer salad

As summer arrives, this is the perfect time to enjoy papaya. If you are already acquainted with it, perhaps one pleasant result of visiting a tropical locale, let me inspire you to serve it more often, including in savory dishes, like this chicken salad. Happily, whether papaya is a new experience or you already like it, eating it is easy since it is often one of the cut-up fruits most supermarkets now sell.

For me, the flesh of a papaya looks like that of a melon or mango lit with the intense glow of a sunset. (Although sometimes actually called papaya melon, they are not related.) Far softer than any melon, most of the papayas we get taste just mildly sweet. At first, I found this strange, ...

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