Ingredient
Asparagus
Asparagus is on eight plates at four of the kitchens we read. Five of them are printed under entree, and the shape it takes most often is the entree-plate, on two.
In the neighbourhood: The breakfast plate
From 40 menus · asparagus is on 8 plates · How we read them
For the curious: the data views
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Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →
How it comes
The forms it turns up in, most first.
Where on the menu
The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.
How it's cooked
How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.
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The journey of asparagus
The same 8 plates read outward from the middle: how the kitchens cook it, how it then arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. A wedge too narrow for its word carries it in the table underneath.
| Ring | Commonest | Plates |
|---|---|---|
| How it's cooked | roasted | 3 |
| How it comes | platter | 1 |
| Where on the menu | entree | 1 |
| Other | 17 other steps, added up | 19 |
| Not stated | the menu never printed that detail | 13 |
Every wedge, as a table
| Cooked | Arrives as | Course | Plates |
|---|---|---|---|
| roasted | — | — | 3 |
| roasted | not stated | — | 2 |
| roasted | not stated | not stated | 2 |
| roasted | platter | — | 1 |
| roasted | platter | entree | 1 |
| seared | — | — | 2 |
| seared | entree-plate | — | 1 |
| seared | entree-plate | entree | 1 |
| seared | not stated | — | 1 |
| seared | not stated | not stated | 1 |
| baked | — | — | 1 |
| baked | entree-plate | — | 1 |
| baked | entree-plate | entree | 1 |
| broiled | — | — | 1 |
| broiled | platter | — | 1 |
| broiled | platter | entree | 1 |
| cured | — | — | 1 |
| cured | not stated | — | 1 |
| cured | not stated | not stated | 1 |
| fried | — | — | 1 |
| fried | not stated | — | 1 |
| fried | not stated | not stated | 1 |
| grilled | — | — | 1 |
| grilled | not stated | — | 1 |
| grilled | not stated | not stated | 1 |
| sauteed | — | — | 1 |
| sauteed | not stated | — | 1 |
| sauteed | not stated | side | 1 |
| other ways | — | — | 2 |
| scallopini | — | — | 1 |
| stuffed | — | — | 1 |
Travels with
What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.
- Crab2all Crab
- Potato2all Potatodistinctive
Dishes
Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.
Our reading of the menu turns up popcorn, drink and fresh.
The menu leans on broth, baguette and succotash.
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Cornmeal, corn bread and corn on cob come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
In the family
Where it sits in the ingredient lexicon.
One entry is all the menus we read give this. All vegetable
Where on the island
The 4 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.
| District | Kitchens | Side of the island |
|---|---|---|
| Lower Midtown | 1 | inland |
| Midtown | 1 | oceanfront |
| North OC | 1 | inland |
| West Ocean City | 1 | harbor |