Category: Food & Drink
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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…
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Home Away From Home: The Sampler
A lot of my stories start with a bar. I think it’s probably genetic. My parents are nothing if not talented drinkers, who raised me to love the finer things (aka beers and gins) in life. Their friend groups seem to have a high bartender to lay person ratio, and, ever their offspring, I’m always…
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Bless Your Heart, New York: You Still Can’t Make a Mint Julep
We wrote to New York once already, back when we first started this blog, about their difficulty grasping the essence of a cocktail we hold most dear. Given the Derby season, and the city’s seeming inability to follow our instructions, we have decided to issue a reminder. So New York, consider this your second notice.…
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Chocolate, Pecan, Bourbony Goodness
The more time I spend in the Northeast, the more I find myself acting as an informal (and sometimes formal) ambassador for my beloved Derby City. Because let me tell you, that little race that New Yorkers are quick to write off as a silly Southern fling is, in fact, a pretty big f-ing deal.…
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Our Talent Really Lies in Drinking: A Derby Cocktail Guide
Derby time, as you surely know already, is not complete without a little alcohol-induced depravity (for those of age, of course). So as resident Chief of Appropriate Inebriation for Zelda & Scout, I am here to provide you with some cocktails with which to make your Derby celebration (wherever it may be) properly lubricated. Now…
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Game Day Artichoke Dip
Friends, comrades, fellow fans of the ball we call basket, I write to you today in a much more morose state than when I composed my last post. As you may have heard, my beloved Cardinals faced a mighty Spartan horde this past Sunday and fell, like so many noble warriors before them, in a…
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Kentucky: It’s Not Just For Bourbon Anymore
If you’ve stopped by the blog since last Friday, you know that the holy festival of March Madness is upon us. I was originally slated to produce some sort of basketball-viewing cocktail for you today; however, my basketball viewing hardly ever involves a mixed drink. The Momma and The Granmomma have been known to down a…
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Bless Your Heart, New York: BBQ Blues
Dear New York, We’ve got a bone to pick with you. See we’ve been here a while, and we’ve seen some things. Some things that you call barbecue. But we’re here to inform you that BBQ as you know it is, for the most part, not BBQ at all. And, dear misinformed New York, you…
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Get Your Fruit On: Chocolate Raspberry Bars
Hello, lovelies! G/Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but the cold has hung on with a vengeance, which always puts me in a baking mood. When the weather outside is frightful, I want nothing more than to munch on something warm and homey, and the baking process has the added benefits of 1. making my…
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Happy New Liver!
Ah New Year’s Eve — a time for reflection, a time for resolution, a time for…inebriation. Some of you may be going out, partying your faces off in some sticky-floored bar, hoping to smush faces with a special someone (or just a someone) when the clock strikes 12. If you’re like Scout, you will avoid…
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