Much used as a simile in love poetry, from the Chinese poet Po ChuI's "mouth like a red cherry," to Robert Herrick's "cherry ripe" and after, the cherry surprisingly doesn't have much of a reputation as a love food. At least there aren't many erotic recipes available using it, save for standards like cherry pie and Cherries Jubilee. The word, of course, has served as both a synonym for a young girl and a young woman's or young man's virginity. The Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) has exceedingly hard wood that is said to have been used for the Trojan horse, and its bark yields the red dye used for the traditional Turkish fez. Berries from a dwarf form of it were believed by the Scottish Highlanders to create appetite, and they thus named the