Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass halfway filled with ice cubes. Stir well with a bar spoon. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Squeeze oil from lemon peel into the drink, or garnish with an olive.

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The martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth and garnished with an olive. Over the years, the martini has become one of the most well-known mixed alcoholic beverages. H. L. Mencken once called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet", It is the drink of the one-time "three-martini lunch" of business executives. The martini is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, along with many other favorite cocktails. While variations are many, a standard modern martini is an approximate four to one ratio, made by combining approximately two ounces (or 55ml) of gin, and approximately half an ounce (or 15ml) of dry vermouth. However, it is relatively common to see a bartender mix a martini with a shaker due in part to the influence of popular cultural figures such as the fictional spy James Bond, who asked for his vodka martinis "shaken, not stirred" (the James Bond version of the martini was originally a Vesper), and super-sleuth Nick Charles (William Powel...

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