Author: zeldaandscout
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We Went to Derby!
We did the thing, y’all! Last Thursday, before dawn had even cracked, we hit the road towards our old Kentucky home. The journey was long but full of snacks and inside jokes. Once we hit our beloved Louisville, we hung with Zelda’s parentals and Scout’s momma; toured the Maker’s Mark distillery; hit up our favorite…
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How to Make a Hot Brown
It’s T-minus 2 days until we leave for the homeland on the great pilgrimage to Derby. But before we pack up our hat boxes and head southward for that storied race, we wanted to tackle a classic Kentucky recipe: The Hot Brown. Created in 1926 at The Brown Hotel in our hometown of Louisville, Kentucky,…
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How to Go to the Kentucky Derby Like a Pro
The horse is out of the gate, y’all: We’re going to Derby! The rumors are true, dear readers. This year, we are making a hallowed pilgrimage to the Z&S homestead for that most sacred of events: the Kentucky Derby. Thanks to Scout’s momma, we have secured tickets for us and seven of our closest New…
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Early Spring 2018 Playlist: Wild Flowers
It has technically been spring for two weeks now, but here in New York City, you wouldn’t know it. On the Monday morning when we compiled this playlist, snow was falling outside our windows — big fat flakes that covered the ground, coated the trees, made fluffy hats for the trash cans…and then melted within…
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You’ve Got Mail: 20 Years Later
This year marks the *gasp* 20th anniversary of Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail. It’s one of our favorites here at Zelda & Scout — even if we do blame it for coloring our views of what it would be like to live in New York, setting up expectations that were unrealistic even then. No one who…
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All the Fixin’s: Honeyed Applesauce
March has hit New York City with an icy vengeance. Spring may technically be on the horizon, the daylight has begun to be saved, but winter is still howling to be heard — to the tune of not one, not two, but three nor’easters in less than two weeks. We, dear readers, are officially over…
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One Last Olympics Post, We Swear.
You’ve probably noticed that we’ve been a bit preoccupied this month, with both the Valentine’s season and the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. We would apologize, but we are not ashamed of our enthusiasm (we’ll return to our regularly scheduled program next week, we promise). We’ve been trying to figure out why narratives of romance and…
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Late Winter Playlist: Come What May
Hi, y’all. Forgive us if we aren’t at our most coherent, but at this moment we come to you from an emotional state. As Scout explained in her post last week, we both harbor a potentially unhealthy love for the sport of ice dance — and specifically, for the perfect, beautiful angels known as Tessa…
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All the Fixin’s: Pecan Pralines
Mardi Gras is right around the corner (February 13th to be precise, more on that later). So for this chapter of All the Fixin’s, we thought it only right to attempt a Louisiana classic: the praline. Pronounced “praw-leen” if you’re from Louisiana (and if you are correct, Zelda would argue), or “pray-lean” if you’re from…
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Midwinter Playlist 2018: Bomb Cyclone
Last week, the East Coast was walloped by a snow storm. And not just any snow storm: This thing earned the unequivocally dope classification of “bomb cyclone.” Now sadly, we both had to make our way to our offices despite the howling winds and pelting snow and sub-zero wind chills. But what we should have…
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