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caperberry
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Capparis spinosa, a perennial winter-deciduous plant that bears rounded, fleshy leaves and large white to pinkish-white flowers, often eaten as pickled buds (capers).
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On the charming island of Salina – with its vines and caperberry trees – is the family-run Hotel Signum complete with spa, restaurant and gardens.
Mr. Pairet's play on fish and chips (a single, battered caperberry stuffed with anchovy paste and paired with a Scottish beer) emerges in a dreary storm with images of raindrops on the walls and the sounds of thunder, before a British flag is illuminated on the table and the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" begins to play.
After bread – one halved slice – and excellent, if equally cheese-pared butter, comes the set menu's first course: squid, lightly pickled white radish, halved caperberry, a frond of rocket, a drape of basil, some fine, ripe tomato.
The Impromptu Martini, cocktail No. 2, from the "Feeling Fuzzy" section, was a knuckle-whitening swerve from common sense, involving sherry instead of vermouth and a caperberry.
"Bit too salty," Mr. Webber said, after sipping a martini made with Hendrick's and garnished with a large caperberry in place of an olive.
The bartender served up a salty cucumber martini about which the best that could be said was that it wasn't as salty as the caperberry fiasco.
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Occasionally, a dish feels like a failed experiment, such as the chopped salad Siciliana, in which the escarole is overpowered by sweet golden raisins and huge briny caperberries.
Then we went to Babbo and ate there, too — lifeboat squid with caperberries, beef-cheek ravioli, stuffed quail".
Their aromatic, garlicky broth, with fresh tomatoes, lemon, shallot and white wine, was delicious enough in itself, without adding the anomalous texture and tartness of capers and giant caperberries.
To surround them, I added roasted peppers, olives, caperberries and prosciutto, which hardly seemed like sacrilege.
Gary Evangelista, the sommelier and general manager, astutely led me through the wines, recommending a Trimbach Pinot Gris with a Caesar salad that featured two mini crab cakes, skewered together with an anchovy, along with halved caperberries, lemon confit and a rich caper aioli.
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