What are capers and how are they grown?
Following one of our standard strategies for food questions, we headed to the Epicurious Food Dictionary, a gourmet bible. The entry for caper explains that this curious item is the flower bud of a bush found in the Mediterranean and parts of Asia. Buds are picked, dried, and usually pickled. You can find them in the grocery store sold either in brine-filled jars or salted and sold in bulk. Capers are used to flavor piquant sauces or to garnish meat and vegetable dishes. A search on “caper bush” turned up scores of pages about the condiment-bearing shrub. We found a picture of the
