Writer and culinary historian Jessica B Harris talks taste

My personal style signifier is my jewellery, which is somewhere between Sammy Davis Jr and Mr T. I have a pile of ivory bracelets that I bought when I was in Africa in the ’70s. And I have a combination of clamshell beads called wampum that were tender under Native Americans here in Martha’s Vineyard. On my other wrist I have five gold bracelets made by my mother, who became a jeweller at 70, and today I’m wearing a coral necklace. Most of my jewellery comes with history; I collect…