Ingredient

Cake

Cake turns up on sixteen plates across nine of the kitchens we read. The entree section holds six of them, and it comes as a sandwich more often than anything else, on three.

From 40 menus · cake is on 16 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 →

Cake, broiled or grilled

Our reading of the menus puts it broiled at four kitchens and grilled at three.

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 cake

The same 16 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 cake: 16 plates, 8 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.Cakebroiled — 5 plates (26%)broiledgrilled — 5 plates (26%)grilledfried — 3 plates (16%)friedfolded — 2 plates (11%)foldedbarbecued — 1 plate (5%)breaded — 1 plate (5%)sauteed — 1 plate (5%)steamed — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 3 plates (16%)not statedplatter — 1 plate (5%)sandwich — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 4 plates (21%)not statedomelette — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 2 plates (11%)not statedplatter — 1 plate (5%)omelette — 2 plates (11%)omelettenot stated — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 1 plate (5%)platter — 1 plate (5%)entree — 3 plates (16%)entreeentree — 1 plate (5%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (5%)not statednot stated — 3 plates (16%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (5%)appetizerbreakfast — 1 plate (5%)breakfastentree — 2 plates (11%)entreeentree — 1 plate (5%)entreebreakfast — 2 plates (11%)breakfastentree — 1 plate (5%)entreeentree — 1 plate (5%)entreeappetizer — 1 plate (5%)appetizerentree — 1 plate (5%)entree
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedbroiled5
How it comesomelette2
Where on the menuentree3
Other22 other steps, added up31
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail16
Every wedge, as a table
16 plates carrying Cake, cooked 8 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 16. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
broiled5
broilednot stated3
broilednot statedentree3
broiledplatter1
broiledplatterentree1
broiledsandwich1
broiledsandwichnot stated1
grilled5
grillednot stated4
grillednot statednot stated3
grillednot statedappetizer1
grilledomelette1
grilledomelettebreakfast1
fried3
friednot stated2
friednot statedentree2
friedplatter1
friedplatterentree1
folded2
foldedomelette2
foldedomelettebreakfast2
barbecued1
barbecuednot stated1
barbecuednot statedentree1
breaded1
breadednot stated1
breadednot statedentree1
sauteed1
sauteednot stated1
sauteednot statedappetizer1
steamed1
steamedplatter1
steamedplatterentree1

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.

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Dishes

Our reading of the menu turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.

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Our reading of the menu lists: vegetable, brioche, tartar.

Our reading of the menu turns up steamed, soft crab and crab.

Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.

Brisket, Ipa Steak Sauce and roll come up more here than elsewhere on our list.

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 pastry

Where on the island

The 9 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Cake at 9 kitchens across 4 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown2inland
North OC1inland
West Ocean City4harbor
Day-trips ring2inland