Ingredient

Crouton

Nine plates at seven of the kitchens we read carry crouton. Four of them sit under appetizer, and it comes as a salad more often than anything else, on four.

From 40 menus · crouton is on 9 plates · How we read them

For the curious: the data views

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.

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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 crouton

The same 9 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 crouton: 9 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.Croutonfried — 4 plates (44%)friedblackened — 1 plate (11%)blackenedgrilled — 1 plate (11%)grilledraw — 1 plate (11%)rawseared — 1 plate (11%)searedsimmered — 1 plate (11%)simmeredsalad — 2 plates (22%)saladnot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statedside — 1 plate (11%)sidewrap — 1 plate (11%)wrapsalad — 1 plate (11%)saladsalad — 1 plate (11%)saladnot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statedsoup — 1 plate (11%)soupappetizer — 2 plates (22%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (11%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (11%)appetizernot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statedentree — 1 plate (11%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statedentree — 1 plate (11%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (11%)not stated
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedfried4
How it comessalad2
Where on the menuappetizer2
Other14 other steps, added up14
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail5
Every wedge, as a table
9 plates carrying Crouton, cooked 6 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 9. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
fried4
friedsalad2
friedsaladappetizer2
friednot stated1
friednot statedappetizer1
friedside1
friedsideappetizer1
blackened1
blackenedwrap1
blackenedwrapnot stated1
grilled1
grilledsalad1
grilledsaladentree1
raw1
rawsalad1
rawsaladnot stated1
seared1
searednot stated1
searednot statedentree1
simmered1
simmeredsoup1
simmeredsoupnot 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.

Dishes

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

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

Our reading of the menu lists jerk, sliced and jerk chicken.

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

Crouton at 7 kitchens across 5 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Midtown1oceanfront
Uptown1bayside
North OC1inland
West Ocean City2harbor
Day-trips ring2inland