{"id":18,"date":"2017-07-24T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2017\/07\/24\/kangaroo-cocktails\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T01:59:00","slug":"kangaroo-cocktails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2017\/07\/24\/kangaroo-cocktails\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroo Cocktails"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you know, Bob, space tourism features pretty heavily in both of my Kangaroo<\/i> books: the first one<\/a> takes place mostly on an interplanetary cruise spaceship, and the second book<\/a> sees Kangaroo going undercover as a civilian on the Moon.<\/p>\n

And, of course, tourism often involves drinking. Like modern cruise ships, the Dejah Thoris<\/i> in Waypoint Kangaroo<\/i> encourages its passengers to imbibe early and often; and the Hotel Tranquility in Kangaroo Too<\/i> boasts a well-stocked, all-hours lobby bar (liquor laws are a little looser on Luna). I have been known to take a drink now and then, myself, and I had fun writing some beverage-fueled encounters into both books.<\/p>\n

Enter my friend Huw Evans<\/a>, one of the workshop administrators for Clarion West (the writing boot camp I attended in 2014) and a real-life cocktail enthusiast, among other things. I had the wacky idea to ask him if he wanted to actually come up with a recipe for the vaguely described “Zero-Gravity Football” drink from Waypoint Kangaroo<\/i>, and he did! So of course I also asked him to do the same for Kangaroo Too<\/i> this year, for the unnamed cocktail that Kangaroo shares with Breyella Wilgus in chapter eight.<\/p>\n

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The point of all this is to say that it’s nice to have people who support your wacky ideas and help you celebrate things. I look forward to many more book launches, readings, and afterparties with Huw and my other Seattle-area friends.<\/p>\n

Below you’ll find the complete recipes for both Kangaroo<\/i> cocktails. Enjoy in good health and good company!<\/p>\n

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