#nonpareille

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ampersand Anacharsis Nonpareille

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de beauTÉ, DE PRÉCIOSITÉ ILS NE PEUVENT PAS ME CHANGER

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Nonpareille

I adore capers. I’d add them to every dish I cooked if I could, they are splendidly good. It has oft puzzled me as to what the term “nonpareille” means, as most of the capers I buy are classed as nonpareille, or nonpareil.

While I haven’t established if the latter -le are required or not, I’m spelling it as per my jar of capers so forgive if that is incorrect, take it up with Tesco.

What I have discovered is that the term literally means “without peer”, or in other words: incomparable. Which is fabulously arrogant and makes me love them a little more. It doesn’t actually mean anything, other than they’re good. Brilliant. In fact I think they should be called brilliant capers, because everyone knows what that means.

I am slightly disappointed to learn that you can’t get pareille capers however. Ah well.

What I learned today: nonpareille means “without peer” but isn’t a valid scrabble word.