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What are capers?
An overview of capers, plus a few recipes that showcase their powers.
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Posted on 12/01/2021 12:03:53 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: capers; food; quercetin; strangelittlepost
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Awesome!!
https://www.creolefood.com/Boscoli-Italian-Olive-Salad-32-oz?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=&scid=scplp302&sc_intid=302
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:03:53 PM PST
by
mylife
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:04:23 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: mylife
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:06:49 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: mylife
I’ve heard of a clapper caper.
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:06:49 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: mylife
![](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdistractedglobe.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F06%2FInvasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-1978-Donald-Sutherland-pic-2.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
That's a rat turd......................No, it's a caper.......
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:07:57 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: mylife
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:08:15 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Larry Lucido
a copper clapper caper? ;)
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:08:19 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: Larry Lucido
Don’t go there................
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:08:23 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: PGR88
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:09:18 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: mylife
I love capers and toss them into my pasta whenever I get the chance. Yummy!
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:09:48 PM PST
by
liberalh8ter
(The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
To: mylife
Reminds me of bagels and lox. Except, that I like the smoked salmon, onions and capers without the bagel.
Very good stuff!
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:11:22 PM PST
by
caver
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:11:33 PM PST
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Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: mylife
![](https://i1.wp.com/the-avocado.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Peter-Sellers.jpg?resize=1270%2C694&ssl=1)
The caper is afoot.
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:11:34 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: liberalh8ter
recipes at the site
do add, anchovies and red pepper...
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:12:31 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: caver
recipes at the original site.
Yom
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:13:50 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: Larry Lucido
LOL!.................Still funny after all these years!...........
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:15:41 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:16:49 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
To: mylife
Italian chefs make the best use of capers.
![](
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Sole-with-Lemon-Caper-Sauce
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:21:10 PM PST
by
Liz
(, side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
To: mylife
Capers always make me think of this old Dilbert strip:
”Capers?”
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:22:58 PM PST
by
verum ago
(Some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind. Too cynical..?)
To: Liz
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posted on
12/01/2021 12:23:11 PM PST
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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