Tag: food and drink
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What does the world eat? National dishes, breakfasts and regional food on one map
National dishes for 186 countries and territories, breakfast styles for 73, and 2,706 regional dishes from fabada in Asturias to takoyaki in Osaka, mapped from Wikipedia and Wikidata. And why there is no lunch map.
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Chips, curry or kebab? The UK’s takeaway map
I sorted all 62,949 takeaways and 141,306 restaurants on the UK’s food hygiene register by what their names say they sell. The chip shop capital is the seaside, the curry capital is Hounslow, and the old Chinatowns still show.
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Captain Swing: did the riots follow the machines?
In 1830 English farm labourers smashed threshing machines. Using Caprettini and Voth’s open data I mapped 3,117 Swing incidents: parishes with a recorded machine were twice as likely to riot, but 90% of riotous parishes had no machine at all.
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Barm, bap, cob or roll? Britain’s bread roll lines
Roll, bun, bap, barm, cob, breadcake, teacake, muffin or batch? I mapped 20,038 answers from two dialect surveys, drew the lines where one word gives way to another, and checked whether the high street agrees.
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What pub names remember
I grouped every named pub in Great Britain by name: 37,559 pubs and 16,349 names. Kings, coaching, railways, the arms of great families, and the local names that give a county away.
