To Your Health!

The ultimate summer drink, the gin and tonic, first became popular

in 19th-century India—as a malaria cure. Quinine, a bitter herb that prevents

the disease, was part of the carbonated tonic water patented in 1858, and

British colonists soon concocted the G&T as a way to take their daily medicine.

Winston Churchill himself once said, “The gin and tonic drink has saved more

Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.”