This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Food and drink Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink Template:WikiProject Food and drink Food and drink articles If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. He purportedly had the bartender serve him cold water so he could stay sober while his clients became intoxicated the cocktail onion garnish served to distinguish his beverage from those of his clients.This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects:įood and drink : Beverages Start‑class Low‑importance A similar story involves an investment banker named Gibson, who would take his clients out for the proverbial three-martini business lunches. Although said to be a teetotaller, he often had to attend cocktail receptions, where he'd ask for a martini glass filled with cold water, garnished with a small onion so he could distinguish his drink from others. Other stories of the drink's origins feature apocryphal businessmen, including an American diplomat who served in Europe during Prohibition. Even the towns of Gibsonville, Seventy-Six, Pine Grove, Whiskey Diggings, and several others, did their trading here. During the winter of 1852 and '53, snow fell in Onion Valley to the depth of twenty-five feet. Īnother theory is that the Gibson after whom the drink was named was a popular California onion farmer, as seen in the publication Hutchings' illustrated California magazine: Volume 1 (p. Other reporting supports this theory Edward Townsend, former vice president of the Bohemian Club, is credited with the first mention of the Gibson in print, in a humorous essay he wrote for the New York World published in 1898. Charles Clegg, when asked about it by Herb Caen, also said it was from San Francisco, not New York. Gibson, who claimed to have created the drink at the Bohemian Club in the 1890s. Īnother version now considered more probable recounts a 1968 interview with a relative of a prominent San Francisco businessman named Walter D. As the story goes, Connolly simply substituted an onion for the olive and named the drink after the patron. Supposedly, he challenged Charley Connolly, the bartender of the Players Club in New York City, to improve upon a martini. According to one theory, it was invented by Charles Dana Gibson, who created the popular Gibson Girl illustrations. The exact origin of the Gibson is unclear, with numerous popular tales and theories about its genesis. There is no known recipe for the Gibson garnished with an onion before William Boothby's 1908 Gibson recipe. Other pre- Prohibition recipes all omit bitters and none of them garnish with an onion. But the earliest recipes for a Gibson – including the first known recipe published in 1908 by Sir David Austin – are differentiated more by how they treat the addition of bitters. In its modern incarnation, it is considered a cousin of the ubiquitous martini, distinguished mostly by garnishing with an onion instead of an olive. The Gibson is a mixed drink made with gin and dry vermouth, and often garnished with a pickled onion. Stir well in a shaker with ice, then strain into a chilled martini glass.1 cl (0.33 ounce) (1 part) dry vermouth.Gin and vermouth cocktail, often served with an onion Gibson Cocktail
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