Tag: south
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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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Required Reading: Volume Twelve
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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All the Fixin’s: Biscuit Muffins
Autumn is officially upon us, which means we can finally turn our ovens back on! Zelda in particular is very excited for all the baking adventures this season holds (on her to-do list so far: homemade bread, jam, and a roast chicken that would make Julia Child proud). For our first foray back into the…
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All The Fixin’s: Sweet Potato Sonker and Milk Dip
This installment of All The Fixin’s comes from Ronni Lundy’s Victuals. We’d never heard of sonker until friend-of-the-blog Jason mentioned it during a discussion of the great cobbler versus pie versus crumble debate. “Sonker?” we asked. “What on earth is a sonker?” Well a sonker, we learned, is a deep-dish, cobbler-like dessert unique to a specific…
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All the Fixin’s: Brown Sugar Cornmeal Pie
Welcome back to All the Fixin’s! We are still waiting for spring to arrive here in New York: There was a brief respite from cold…followed quickly by a nor’easter. Suffice it to say, it’s still quite brisk. No matter! We are of the firm belief that every season is pie season! And there were many…
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Just Folks: Andi Morrow
Guess who’s back (back back), back again? That’s right, it’s“Just Folks,” our series in which we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. This week we have Andi Morrow. An actress, writer, and filmmaker from Huntsville, TN,…
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5 Reasons We Love The Secret Sisters
We first discovered The Secret Sisters at our hometown music festival, Forecastle, many years ago. We ventured onto the grass by the Bourbon Lodge (yes, that’s a thing we have in Kentucky — a lodge just for bourbon) during a lull in our schedules, and lucky for us, we happened to witness Laura and Lydia Rogers…
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Left My Troubles All Behind Me
Zelda and I had an English teacher that liked to say that there were a limited number of stories in the world, and everything we read was just a variation on one of them. (I never heard the whole theory, but I remember being skeptical at the time. I’m still skeptical, actually.) The quest narrative…
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Required Reading: Volume Three
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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A Dirty Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste: 9 Life Lessons We Learned From Steel Magnolias
While Nora Ephron shaped our cinematic visions of New York, the single biggest cinematic influence on our views on life in the South was Steel Magnolias. From the big hair to the epic levels of snark and sass, we identify with these ladies big time: An alternative name for this blog could have been Clairee…
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