Caper buds. Capers are a distinctive ingredient in Italian cuisine, especially in Sicilian, Aeolian and southern Italian cooking. They are commonly used in salads, pasta salads, meat dishes, and pasta sauces. Examples of uses in Italian cuisine are chicken piccata and "spaghetti alla puttanesca". Capers are known for being one of the ingredients of tartar sauce. They are often served with cold smoked salmon or cured salmon dishes (especially lox and cream cheese). Capers and caper berries are sometimes substituted for olives to garnish a martini. Capers are categorized and sold by their size, defined as follows, with the smallest sizes
Green Flower Blaue Reiter (the Blue Rider) group in Munich, which consisted of both German and Russian artists. Green Flower Green Flower ( Latvian. Zaļā puķe ) was an association of young Latvian avant-garde artists which lasted from 1914 to 1919. The group was centred around Jāzeps Grosvalds, who had visited Munich and Paris whilst travelling around Europe since 1909. The group also included Alexander Drevin who, however, left Riga shortly after the group was founded. Other members include Karlis Johansons, Valdemars Tone and Konrad Ubans. In 1919 he was dissolved but provided the basis for the Riga group of artists. The