Taste of the South

What Comfort Food Means to Me

in Louisiana, my grandmother, mom, and aunt would make this homemade concoction called cherry bounce. I still have vivid memories of running through my nanny’s backyard with my cousins to pick wild cherries for the special recipe. Once we collected all the cherries our small hands could gather, we would rinse them and place them in an empty gallon bourbon bottle and cover them with sugar. After watching the cherries sit

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