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Byline: Photographed by Irving Penn.
JalapeA[+ or -]os, habaneros, chipotles, anchos, guajillos, serranos, piquinschile peppers hide the seeds of joy inside a jolting burn, and bring back Christmas in Santa Fe to Joan Juliet Buck.
I had been back in America for three months after seven arid years in Paris. My day job had ended, my father had died, the man I trusted turned out to be insane, and as each of them vanished from my life, so did obligation, duty, and identity. I'd moved to Santa Fe for the outlaw colors and the haze of burning mesquite, the promise of freedom in that simulated old-West city of liberals and dropouts. Wildlife was present ...