Captain Cat’s Cocktail
On the eve of Oscar night, I attended the closing reception for Wales Week. There, at the Morgan Lubrary & Museum, a choir performed traditional Welsh music and some poppier tunes, people were thanked, Dylan Thomas poems and manuscripts were on view, and cocktails were distributed. These were special Captain Cat cocktails, inspired by a line from Dylan Thomas’s “Under the Milkwood Tree”
What’s a Captain Cat?
“the retired blind sea-captain, asleep in his bunk in the seashelled, ship-in-bottled, shipshape best cabin of Schooner House.” (Played by Peter O’Toole in the 1972 movie adaptation)
What’s a Captain Cat cocktail?
1 Part – Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum
1/2 Part – Fresh Lime Juice
2 Parts – Cranberry Juice
All parts shaken over ice and strained into a martini glass. Garnished with a fresh lime wheel.
Did I feel a little odd sipping cocktails inspired by a man who drank himself to death? Maybe, but the drink was perky and refreshing, and I stopped at two.
Check out the first part of the radio play “Under the Milk Wood,” and enjoy the links between literature and libations.
