Ingredient

Pretzel

Two plates at two of the kitchens we read carry pretzel. Two of them sit 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 · pretzel is on 2 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.

Where on the menu

The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All bread

How it's cooked

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

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All bread

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. All bread

Dishes

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

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