What are capers? An overview of capers, plus a few recipes that showcase their powers.

the take out ^

[mylife]

Capers are salty little flavor bombs that, when they find your fork, create a perfectly balanced bite that pops like fireworks. They’re also the sort of food that we tend not to ask questions about, until one day, apropos of nothing, we suddenly realize we have no idea what capers are. Are they fruits? Vegetables? Something else entirely? It’s the sort of question that causes a person to bolt out of bed in the middle of the night, grab their phone, Google “what are capers,” and find themselves here. So let’s answer this pressing question so you can get back to bed.

What are capers? Capers are tiny flower buds that grow on the spiny, sprawling capparis spinosa bush, aka the caper bush. It grows in places where most plants can’t: cliffs, rocky hillsides, sandy or gravelly soils, etc. These bushes can be found along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, from the Middle East to the Himalayas, across the Pacific Islands, and in the outback of Northern Australia. If growing conditions are harsh, caper bushes find a way.

A brief history of capers Historically, wherever soil is inhospitable to crops, people have needed to figure out how to make edible whatever grows in the area.

From there, capers got famous. They make an appearance in The Epic of Gilgamesh, written on clay tablets in Sumer around 2700 BC. They can be also found in the De materia medica, which confirmed capers were prized in Ancient Greece as both food and medicine, and in Apicius, an ancient Latin “cookbook” compiled in the first century AD.

[mylife]

Awesome!!

https://www.creolefood.com/Boscoli-Italian-Olive-Salad-32-oz?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=&scid=scplp302&sc_intid=302

[mylife]

https://www.creolefood.com/Boscoli-Italian-Olive-Salad-32-oz?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=&scid=scplp302&sc_intid=302

[Jamestown1630]

Have you ever tried deep frying them? They’re supposed to be good - they burst into flower bud-like shapes.

https://foodtasia.com/fried-capers/

[Larry Lucido]

I’ve heard of a clapper caper.

[Red Badger]

That's a rat turd......................No, it's a caper.......

[PGR88]

[mylife]

a copper clapper caper? ;)

[Red Badger]

Don’t go there................

[mylife]

she was a hoot!

[liberalh8ter]

I love capers and toss them into my pasta whenever I get the chance. Yummy!

[caver]

Reminds me of bagels and lox. Except, that I like the smoked salmon, onions and capers without the bagel.
Very good stuff!

[Larry Lucido]

Copper clapper caper

https://youtu.be/zOJGlhw5Jbo

[Magnum44]

The caper is afoot.

[mylife]

recipes at the site

do add, anchovies and red pepper...

[mylife]

recipes at the original site.

Yom

[Red Badger]

LOL!.................Still funny after all these years!...........

[mylife]

smile, smile, smile :)

[Liz]

Italian chefs make the best use of capers.

Sole-with-Lemon-Caper-Sauce

[verum ago]

Capers always make me think of this old Dilbert strip:

”Capers?”

[mylife]

Many chefs do.