Gibson

Gibson is a cocktail made with a combination of gin and dry vermouth. In order to prepare it, the ingredients should be shaken with ice, then strained into a chilled martini glass, which is garnished with a pickled cocktail onion. It is believed that Gibson was invented in San Francisco in the late 1800s by a businessman named Walter D.K. Gibson, hence the name of the cocktail.

Gibson thought that consuming onions prevented common colds, and that is the reason why the mini allium is in the drink instead of a briny olive. The most notable reference to Gibson in pop culture can be seen in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, when Cary Grant orders it on a train while having dinner with Eva Marie Saint.