Author: zeldaandscout
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Zelda and Scout, A Final Conversation
Zelda: Shall we start at the beginning? Scout: A very good place to start. Zelda: Let’s go back to the spring of 2014, when we first started having conversations about this project, which at the time was just a vague amorphous thing. I was working as a barista at a cake shop in Chelsea, several…
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Fly Away Hummingbird Cake
If you’re a regular reader, you know that our writing has been…inconsistent lately. There are a lot of reasons why — life stuff, job stuff, busy and overwhelmed and uninspired stuff. We are coming upon the fifth anniversary of this project, five years of recipes and playlists and rants and raves and reflections on what…
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Late Spring Playlist 2019: Rise & Shine
We’re finally getting back into the swing of life after a long, long winter (like seriously long…it was 40 degrees last week). The sun is finally out, it’s warm enough for bare legs and shoulders, and for the first time in her life Zelda is working a daytime job! It’s all very exciting. So inspired…
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Book Club Booze: April Showers Old Fashioned
As Zelda has written on here before, we here at Zelda and Scout participate in the time-honored tradition of the book club. On a regular basis, we gather our friends together to (ostensibly) discuss our tome of choice, usually over a meal of some kind. Our particular book club meets roughly every six weeks, alternates…
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Early Spring Playlist 2019: Snow Day
We’re baaaaaack…and we’re sorry. 2019 has gotten off to a slow start for us. We’re balancing this project that we started when we both had part-time jobs with real actual adult lives, full of work stuff and medical stuff and life stuff. So sometimes we need to put things on the back burner. But we…
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Winter 2019 Playlist: Do the Thing!
Here’s the deal, y’all This playlist was originally slated to go out on January 2nd, after our customary holiday break. But as we crawled into 2019, we found ourselves having a little trouble getting into the new year groove. There were newspaper articles to write, jury duties to serve, exhibitions to plan for. Sometimes, life just…
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Our Favorite Posts of 2018
Another year is coming to an end! By our estimate, 2018 was at least 84 years long, and full of all kinds of ups and downs, highs and lows, twizzles and turns. As we enter the final year of our twenties, we’re reflecting on the lessons we learned, the songs we listened to, the road/train/plane…
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Holiday Playlist 2018: Haul Out the Holly
Apologies, dear readers, for the lateness of this post. We are still recovering from Thailand-induced jet lag, and Wednesday passed us by in a haze. However, we are incredibly excited that it is indeed that holly jolly time of year again. Nothing revives us like holiday cheer! December is in sight, and the holidays are…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy almost Thanksgiving, y’all! This week, we find ourselves in Thailand(!), on a 10-day getaway with two of our nearest and dearest and oldest friends. We got our turkey on early this year, with our annual Friendsgiving dinner with our New York friend-family, and we’ll be celebrating on the actual day with noodles and elephants…
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Thank You, Canada
In the four years we’ve had this blog, we’ve shared some of our loves with you: mint juleps, the band Houndmouth, Jesmyn Ward, rooftops. But there is one passion that consumes many of our waking hours, which has nothing to do with the South or New York, and which we have touched on only briefly…
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