Summer Foods Conjure Memories of Growing up in the South

Cousins, sisters and Grandma Bledsoe on a summer afternoon, circa 1960. Debra-Lynn Hook is second from right, front row. Imogene Gambrell/TNS

By Debra-Lynn B. Hook From Tribune News Service

I bite into a plump, juicy blackberry in my Ohio kitchen and suddenly it is a blistering summer afternoon in the South and I am 8.