Ingredient

Bun

Four of the kitchens we read put bun on the menu, on eight plates. Three of them turn up under appetizer, and it comes as a sandwich more often than anything else, on three.

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From 40 menus · bun is on 8 plates · How we read them

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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.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All bread

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 bun

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.

The journey of bun: 8 plates, 6 ways of cooking them, drawn as three rings — how it is cooked, how it arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. Every wedge is listed with its count in the table below.Bunglazed — 4 plates (40%)glazedfried — 2 plates (20%)friedchilled — 1 plate (10%)chilledgrilled — 1 plate (10%)grilledpoached — 1 plate (10%)poachedsteamed — 1 plate (10%)steamednot stated — 4 plates (40%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statedsandwich — 1 plate (10%)sandwichsandwich — 1 plate (10%)sandwichsandwich — 1 plate (10%)sandwichsandwich — 1 plate (10%)sandwichnot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statedappetizer — 2 plates (20%)appetizernot stated — 2 plates (20%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (10%)not stated
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedglazed4
How it comessandwich1
Where on the menuappetizer2
Other8 other steps, added up9
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail14
Every wedge, as a table
8 plates carrying Bun, cooked 6 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 8. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
glazed4
glazednot stated4
glazednot statedappetizer2
glazednot statednot stated2
fried2
friednot stated1
friednot statednot stated1
friedsandwich1
friedsandwichnot stated1
chilled1
chilledsandwich1
chilledsandwichnot stated1
grilled1
grilledsandwich1
grilledsandwichnot stated1
poached1
poachedsandwich1
poachedsandwichnot stated1
steamed1
steamednot stated1
steamednot statednot stated1

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.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All bread

Dishes

Egg, hollandaise and poached come up more here than elsewhere on our list.

Our reading of the menu turns up cracker, fruit and cod.

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Known for: tempura, corn, crema.

Correct a plate here

In the family

Where it sits in the ingredient lexicon.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All bread

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.

Bun at 4 kitchens across 3 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Midtown1inland
West Ocean City1harbor
Day-trips ring2inland