Category: The South
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Gumbo Day
Thanksgiving has officially come and gone. Our bellies are still full from the feast, the detritus of which lingers on the dining room table. And in my house, my dad is busy cooking up the traditional Day After Thanksgiving Turkey Gumbo. It’s a time-honored tradition in the Zelda household, handed down from one generation to…
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Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Watch These (Movies)
Zelda and I each have a t-shirt from our high school that reads, “LCS Football: Undefeated Since 1915.” Technically, it’s true…on account of the fact that we didn’t actually have a football team. Our 198-person, largely female student body would have had some trouble fielding a team (for lack of numbers, not for lack of…
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October Playlist: Darker Than a Georgia Night With a Heavy Heart
We love October — the leaves crunching beneath our feet, the crisp air, the lattes, the onset of sweater weather. But our favorite bit of October? Halloween. October is the month of ghosts, of witches, of deals with the devil. The South in particular has a history with haunting, and so our soundtrack to this…
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Required Reading: Volume Five
This post is part of our “Required Reading” series, in which we share some of our favorite tales and tomes of New York and the South — classic and contemporary, fiction and nonfiction, short form and long. These are the stories that open our eyes to other walks of life, that shape who we are,…
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Gettin’ Loud All Summer Long
Something about summer always makes me nostalgic. The heat, the smell, the sounds — summers always remind me of hot sticky days in Louisville or frollicking in summer rainstorms at camp, two and three-a-day field hockey practices and the post-practice pain that aches in that sort of wonderful kind of way. But most of all,…
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Stranger In a Southern Land
We are super excited to introduce our very first Guest Writer to the blog! As two Louisville gals living in Bushwick, our perspectives have certain limitations, so we’ve been reaching out to some of you folks to get another spin on things. Interested in becoming part of the Z&S writer family? Email us at zeldaandscout@gmail.com!…
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GRITS: Donna Tartt
This article is part of our series “GRITS: Girls Raised in the South,” in which we profile some of our favorite Dixie ladies and the things that make them awesome. Got an idea for a fabulous femme we should feature? Shoot us an email at zeldaandscout@gmail.com! (Alliteration optional.) Name: Donna Tartt Born: December 23, 1963,…
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In Defense of Lindsey Lee Wells
A few months ago, I was surfing the quiz section of Buzzfeed (as one does when it’s a slow Thursday night at work) when I stumbled upon a post titled “Which John Green Heroine Are You?” Now while The Fault In Our Stars‘ Hazel Grace Lancaster is easily Green’s most recognizable female character, Margo Roth…
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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…
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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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