Ingredient

Romaine

Four of the kitchens we read put romaine on the menu, on six plates. Four of them turn up under appetizer, and most often it is served as a salad, on one.

From 40 menus · romaine is on 6 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.

How it's cooked

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

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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 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 vegetable

Where on the island

The 4 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Romaine at 4 kitchens across 3 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Uptown1inland
West Ocean City2harbor
Day-trips ring1inland