Talking Papaya Salad and Scalloped Potatoes With Pepper Teigen

It doesn’t take long to figure out that Pepper Thai — a.k.a. Pepper Teigen, real name: Vilailuck Teigen — has perhaps the world’s most appropriate nickname. “At Thai restaurants, they always ask you, ‘How spicy? One through five stars?’” she says, grinning. “I always tell them, ‘Ten.’” We are con... More »