While the water boils, I cook a couple of slices of

Harris traveled to the Caribbean for a September 1996 feature on chicken dishes including Puerto Rico's— a dish she explained "is a legacy of indentured servants who came from coastal India in the last century" and "has taken a bit from the French and a bit from the African to become truly Creole."

And she has shared recipes and essays with Food & Wine along the way — notably a 1996 exploration ofand another on her mother's, a 2022 reflection on her decades spent entertaining friends in

, the 2019 curation of an exceptional package called "," honoring the contributions of African American people to American cuisine, and a

delving into her life spent eating on the road.

These recipes share some of the bounty of Harris' life so richly lived and far-flung. You are sure to find a new favorite to expand your horizons — and book a ticket to somewhere delicious.. In fact, Lilly herself founded her brand on busy prints that were cheerful, chic and could easily hide the stains on the uniforms of the gals working at her juice stand (true story). But for many women, the name Lilly Pulitzer carries much more than visions of Palm Beach society.

A quick poll of my Instagram friends, fellow PureWow editors and childhood friends (we were very much a Lilly town and, in fact, had a Lilly Pulitzer boutique on main street) revealed a wide range of thoughts and opinions. “The way that woman’s clothes had me in a chokehold in college!” an old teammate told me, the prints just too appealing to ignore both IRL and on social media. “Works for young and old—no age limit,” added my Aunt Lynne. Others mentioned coveting the wooden handle handbags or feeling like the limited edition prints were almost like collector’s items. But others were less kind in their assessments.Courtesy of Amazon Prime

“[Lilly Pulitzer feels] very status symbol-y to me,” explained a former colleague. “I just remember a lot of preppy mean girls in high school would wear it.” This is the version of Lillycreator Molly Smith Metzler clearly wants to put forth. For Metzler, the prim perfection of Simone, Michaela and the women of the fictional coastal town of Port Haven is something to be equally admired and intimated by. “It’s ridiculous,” she told