Tag: bourbon
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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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Frozen Bourbon Milk Punch
If we were abiding by our regularly scheduled programming, this week would have been another entry in our series “All the Fixin’s.” So Zelda dutifully pulled out her Paul Prudhomme, in search of a recipe we could make and they all just sounded so…hot. The swelter is real, y’all, and as we looked at the…
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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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Zelda’s Holiday Gift Guide 2017
Some call it the most wonderful time of the year. Others call it a commercialized, expensive anxiety dream masquerading as fun. I most definitely fall into the former, but I can understand the concerns of my friends in column number two. Gifting can be stressful! There’s a lot of pressure to find the perfect something…
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Friendsgiving: A Guide
It’s almost Thanksgiving, the time when we all — in the United States, at least — take a quick sojourn from the everyday to feast with family and celebrate what we are thankful for in our lives. But before the family celebrations, there is Friendsgiving, the holiday sensation that’s sweeping the nation (Seth Cohen is…
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Brooklyn, NY to Louisville, KY Summer 2017
We drove a lot when I was a kid. Road trips were fairly standard as the highway was often the most efficient mode of transportation for getting to the small town that my grandparents made their home in, or to the tiny island off the coast of South Carolina where we often vacationed. I know…
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A Short History of the Mint Julep
The first week of May has us here at Zelda & Scout in intense party prep mode. This Saturday, we dust off our wide-brim hats and our fascinators, and pull out our many years’ worth of glassware, and make some probably-less-than-stellar decisions regarding both gambling and inebriation. Because the first Saturday in May brings the…
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The Old Fashioned Way
We all have that one drink: the cocktail standard that we order when we’re feeling fancy, and we want a little more than Blank & Blank. I’m talking about the go-to when you’re dressed up for the night, and you want to feel like your drink made as much effort as you did to be…
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Holiday Cocktails Three Ways
December is upon us, which means we are in the season of holiday parties and cocktails. Let’s be honest: Our real talent lies in drinking, and the holidays are when we really put thos skills to the test. Come December, you can find us throwing back festive libations at parties and pop-ups and bars, especially…
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June Round Up
June busted out all over the place this year and flew by in such a whirlwind that we can’t quite believe it’s almost gone. We’ve been busy bees this month: We both went home for the weekend (on separate occasions), we both saw the Dixie Chicks (once together, Zelda twice), we saw some great theatre…
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