Month: June 2015

  • When the Sun Goes Down in the South

    When the Sun Goes Down in the South

    It’s a sultry Kentucky night, one of those July evenings when everything is sticky with heat. Sundresses are plastered to slick thighs, and heels slip back and forth along the leather beds of sandals. Hands flap like desperate wings, trying to beat a little movement into the heavy air. And yet, despite the hundred degree…

  • Scout’s Kitchenphobic Southern Recipe Wish List

    Scout’s Kitchenphobic Southern Recipe Wish List

    If you ask Zelda, or my mother, or any of the six different roommates I’ve had since moving to New York, they will all tell you that I don’t cook. I don’t cook often when I’m home in Kentucky, and I pretty much never cook in New York (aside from the occasional mac and cheese or scrambled eggs, or…

  • Just Folks: Kendra Ralston

    Just Folks: Kendra Ralston

    Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. This week we have Kendra Ralston! This Kentucky gal wouldn’t exactly call herself…