Ingredient

Meat

Meat is on nine plates at six of the kitchens we read. Three of them are printed under appetizer, and it comes as a dip more often than anything else, on one.

In the neighbourhood: Crab, the Maryland way

From 40 menus · meat 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 meat

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 meat: 9 plates, 9 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.Meatbaked — 1 plate (11%)bakedcajun-rubbed — 1 plate (11%)cajun-rubbedcured — 1 plate (11%)curedfresh — 1 plate (11%)freshfried — 1 plate (11%)friedgrilled — 1 plate (11%)grilledroasted — 1 plate (11%)roastedsimmered — 1 plate (11%)simmeredother ways — 1 plate (11%)other waysdip — 1 plate (11%)dippasta — 1 plate (11%)pastanot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statedsoup — 1 plate (11%)soupappetizer — 1 plate (11%)appetizerentree — 1 plate (11%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (11%)appetizer
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedbaked1
How it comesdip1
Where on the menuappetizer1
Other13 other steps, added up13
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail10
Every wedge, as a table
9 plates carrying Meat, cooked 9 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
baked1
bakeddip1
bakeddipappetizer1
cajun-rubbed1
cajun-rubbedpasta1
cajun-rubbedpastaentree1
cured1
curednot stated1
curednot statednot stated1
fresh1
freshnot stated1
freshnot statednot stated1
fried1
friednot stated1
friednot statednot stated1
grilled1
grillednot stated1
grillednot statednot stated1
roasted1
roastednot stated1
roastednot statednot stated1
simmered1
simmeredsoup1
simmeredsoupappetizer1
other ways1
stuffed1

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. Everything on the appetizer menu

Dishes

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Our reading of the menu turns up Our Tartar Sauce, crabmeat and crabcake.

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

Our reading of the menu lists: jerk, breast, wrapped.

Correct a plate here

Where on the island

The 6 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Meat at 6 kitchens across 5 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown2bayside · inland
Midtown1bayside
North OC1inland
West Ocean City1harbor
Day-trips ring1harbor