Learn more about these briny green berries, including what plant capers come from and how they are used in cooking.

This week, it's flower power. Because that's exactly what capers are and do — they are the flower buds of a wild bush that lend serious flavor power to your cooking. Our story starts several thousand ...

I recently wrote about a specific variety of cooking burnout: You don’t mind being in the kitchen, but you’re out of ideas for what to actually do in there. Several of you wrote in with your own ...

A: Capers are the pickled flower buds of a thorny, trailing shrub that grows like a weed all over the Mediterranean. It’s a stubborn, ornery plant, difficult to cultivate, with a preference for dry, ...