ZORA

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Blood Orange Vanilla. Bright and full of story. Named for Zora Neale Hurston, who believed joy was a serious thing.

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Blood Orange Vanilla. Bright and full of story. Named for Zora Neale Hurston, who believed joy was a serious thing.

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Zora Neale Hurston believed joy was a serious thing and treated it accordingly.

She grew up in Eatonville, Florida — the first incorporated all-Black town in America — where the pine barrens and the oak scrub taught her that ordinary Black life was worth paying close attention to. She never forgot that, carrying it north to study at Barnard and back south again.

Folklore, she said, "reveals that which the soul lives by." So she went looking for it — in jook joints, in the Caribbean, in ceremonies kept alive by memory alone — and wrote it all down in full color. The songs, the laughter, the rituals, the joy.

She made sure the beautiful things survived.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON · 1891–1960 · NOVELIST, FOLKLORIST, ANTHROPOLOGIST

ZORA

The Dreamer

orange · vanilla · cinnamon

The scent of joy.
In full voice.