Let's start with the obvious. A rim of flavored salt lets you push the boundaries while staying true to tradition. Salt does more than just add a punch of flavor.

Wet the glass's rim, and then coat it in the sugar mixture. Even better than water is simple syrup, as it's a bit stickier, and you can even add flavor here with a homemade, upgraded syrup with ...

Ina Garten adds a delicious sugar rim to cocktails. Garten and Drummond both have used sugar on the rims of cocktail glasses for a fun and delicious twist.

The author sips on a sugar-rimmed margarita at The Matchbox. (Photo courtesy of Maggie Hennessy) “The pandemic made us three times as big,” Weinstein told me.

Sugar-coated lemon hard candies may have inspired this 1970s cocktail, but the four-ingredient Lemon Drop follows a classic sour template, combining vodka, triple-sec orange liqueur, freshly ...