How do you make a Martini?
Answer:
The Martini cocktail is probably one of the
most popular and well-known mixed alcoholic drinks.  A true Martini is made with gin and dry white vermouth.  However, since mixed drinks or cocktails are one of those things that can be personalized by anyone who wishes to do so, a Martini may also be made in a hundred other ways.  Indeed, vodka is often substituted for gin to make a Martini.

That said, let's make a Martini.  A Martini typically consists of five parts of gin to one part of dry white vermouth, and ice.  Martinis are either shaken (as James Bond preferred) or stirred (the more common approach).  Once stirred or shaken, the mix is strained, then served (sans ice) in a chilled cocktail glass.  Toss in an olive or a piece of squeezed lemon peel, and you have a Martini!

Winston Churchill said the "perfect martini" was made by pouring a full glass of cold gin and looking at a bottle of vermouth.  General Patton said to point the bottle of gin toward Italy. 

Some other prominent names who favored Martini cocktails are Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Cary Grant, and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and of course, James Bond or "Agent 007"). 

In addition, the Martini cocktail was once considered the favorite drink of CEO's and top-level corporate executives, who frequently had their "three-Martini-lunches" (that is, prior to the days of corporate concerns for the ability to stay fit for doing the job all day long!).

Please drink responsibly!
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