Ingredient

Parmesan

Eight of the kitchens we read put parmesan on the menu, on eight plates. Three of them turn up under appetizer, and most often it is served as a salad, on two.

From 40 menus · parmesan is on 8 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 →

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 parmesan

The same 8 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 parmesan: 8 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.Parmesanshaved — 3 plates (33%)shavedfried — 2 plates (22%)friedbarbecued — 1 plate (11%)barbecuedblackened — 1 plate (11%)blackenedglazed — 1 plate (11%)glazedseared — 1 plate (11%)searednot stated — 2 plates (22%)not statedsalad — 1 plate (11%)saladnot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statedsalad — 1 plate (11%)saladwings — 1 plate (11%)wingswrap — 1 plate (11%)wrapwings — 1 plate (11%)wingsnot stated — 1 plate (11%)not statedappetizer — 2 plates (22%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (11%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (11%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (11%)appetizernot 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 cookedshaved3
How it comessalad1
Where on the menuappetizer2
Other13 other steps, added up14
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail7
Every wedge, as a table
8 plates carrying Parmesan, cooked 6 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 8. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
shaved3
shavednot stated2
shavednot statedappetizer2
shavedsalad1
shavedsaladappetizer1
fried2
friednot stated1
friednot statedappetizer1
friedsalad1
friedsaladappetizer1
barbecued1
barbecuedwings1
barbecuedwingsnot stated1
blackened1
blackenedwrap1
blackenedwrapnot stated1
glazed1
glazedwings1
glazedwingsnot stated1
seared1
searednot stated1
searednot statedappetizer1

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 lists egg, duck and folded.

Our reading of the menu lists broiled, crumbled and crab.

Our reading of the menu turns up braised, linguine and evoo.

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

Parmesan at 8 kitchens across 4 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown2inland
Uptown2bayside · inland
North OC1
West Ocean City3harbor