Ingredient

Mozzarella

Nine of the kitchens we read put mozzarella on the menu, on fourteen plates. Six of them turn up under appetizer, and most often it is served as a flatbread, on five.

From 40 menus · mozzarella is on 14 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 →

Mozzarella, fresh or fried

Our reading of the menus lists it fresh at four kitchens, fried at four, and both at one: Coins Pub & Restaurant.

On both sides: Coins Pub & Restaurant.

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 mozzarella

The same 14 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 mozzarella: 14 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.Mozzarellafresh — 5 plates (26%)freshfried — 4 plates (21%)friedbaked — 3 plates (16%)bakedcured — 2 plates (11%)curedglazed — 2 plates (11%)glazedbattered — 1 plate (5%)breaded — 1 plate (5%)sauteed — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 3 plates (16%)not statedbenedict — 1 plate (5%)flatbread — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 3 plates (16%)not statedsmall-plate — 1 plate (5%)flatbread — 3 plates (16%)flatbreadflatbread — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 1 plate (5%)flatbread — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 1 plate (5%)small-plate — 1 plate (5%)not stated — 1 plate (5%)appetizer — 2 plates (11%)appetizerentree — 1 plate (5%)entreebreakfast — 1 plate (5%)breakfastappetizer — 1 plate (5%)appetizerappetizer — 3 plates (16%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (5%)appetizernot stated — 2 plates (11%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (5%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (5%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (5%)appetizernot stated — 1 plate (5%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (5%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (5%)appetizerappetizer — 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 cookedfresh5
How it comesflatbread3
Where on the menuappetizer3
Other25 other steps, added up33
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail13
Every wedge, as a table
14 plates carrying Mozzarella, cooked 8 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 14. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
fresh5
freshnot stated3
freshnot statedappetizer2
freshnot statedentree1
freshbenedict1
freshbenedictbreakfast1
freshflatbread1
freshflatbreadappetizer1
fried4
friednot stated3
friednot statedappetizer3
friedsmall-plate1
friedsmall-plateappetizer1
baked3
bakedflatbread3
bakedflatbreadnot stated2
bakedflatbreadappetizer1
cured2
curedflatbread1
curedflatbreadappetizer1
curednot stated1
curednot statedappetizer1
glazed2
glazedflatbread1
glazedflatbreadnot stated1
glazednot stated1
glazednot statedappetizer1
battered1
batterednot stated1
batterednot statedappetizer1
breaded1
breadedsmall-plate1
breadedsmall-plateappetizer1
sauteed1
sauteednot stated1
sauteednot statedentree1

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

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Known for: filet, Lemon Vinaigrette, raw.

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

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

Our reading of the menu turns up popcorn, drink and fresh.

The menu leans on country-fried, kaiser and tartar.

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 cheese

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.

Mozzarella at 9 kitchens across 5 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown2inland
Midtown1bayside
Uptown1bayside
North OC1inland
West Ocean City4harbor