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On another small plate, drizzle a circle of the pineapple gomme syrup the circumference of your rocks glass.

In the earliest cocktail books, which date back to the late 1800s, you'll often find gomme syrup — a simple syrup that has gum arabic added to it.

A transparent "painted" salt, made by adapting a gomme syrup recipe.

Reis tweaked a pineapple gomme syrup recipe; instead of adding sugar, he used salt and he swapped in oranges instead of pineapple.

The viscosity conferred by sugar or gomme syrup, the astringent qualities of the tannins in wines that can be echoed with teas and herbal concoctions, the froth of egg-white: All can help create a sort of trompe la bouche, reminding your palate of the textures and sensations of cocktails.