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> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:09:57 -0700 (PDT), Silvar Beitel
> > wrote:
>
> > Julie/Joan/sf: Capers/caperberries: They are different. Capers for
> > chicken piccata, caperberries for other dishes. ViLco understands.
> >
> > See, e.g., http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-caperberries.htm
>
> Thanks Silvar. I saw those on the internet recently but have never
> seen anything like it in person and forgot they were called
> caperberries. I'm so used to people coming to rfc and talking about
> something I know by another name, that I wrongly assumed we were
> talking about the same thing. Good luck with finding a local source
> for your caperberries!

I had joked with someone that if capers are called non-pareils, I wondered what
a pareil was. Then one day on a periodic "find that ingredient" mystery tour we
went to a wholesale place and there they were. Laughed but shrugged...the jar
was too large to consider for an "experiment"