Ingredient

Cornmeal

Three of the kitchens we read put cornmeal on the menu, on four plates. Four of them turn up under side, and it comes as a side more often than anything else, on four.

From 40 menus · cornmeal is on 4 plates · How we read them

For the curious: the data views

How it comes

The forms it turns up in, most first.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. Everything on the side menu

Where on the menu

The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. Everything on the side menu

How it's cooked

How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.

See it on the map

Dishes

Smoked, cornbread and picked chicken come up more here than elsewhere on our list.

Correct a plate here

Where on the island

The 3 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Cornmeal at 3 kitchens across 3 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown1inland
Uptown1inland
North OC1inland