Modern Forage

Atlas

202 entries across 59 of 387 MSAs plus 11 named non-metro regions. Hover any county for detail, click to list dishes; switch to the named-regions layer to highlight cross-CBSA corridors.

MSA boundaries follow the OMB July 2023 delineations. MSAs coloured by a five-hue balanced greedy assignment on the county-adjacency graph (Okabe-Ito palette, CVD-verified at min ΔE=15.7 across protan, deutan, and tritan); no two adjacent MSAs share a hue. Per-MSA lightness varies ±10% within each class for sub-distinction. Non-MSA and μSA counties grouped by Census Bureau Division (9 pastel buckets).

Layer

MSA outlines State outlines

Named non-metro regions

Upper Peninsula 3 entries

UP Michigan, including pasty corridor, Finnish foodways, Cornish mining heritage
German-Russian Great Plains 3 entries

Volga-German / Russian-German immigrant belt across ND, SD, NE
Northern Illinois (Outside Chicago) 2 entries

I-39 / I-80 corridor with college-town (DeKalb) + Illinois Valley pizzeria network
Mississippi Delta 2 entries

Hot tamales, koolickles; Delta Black + Italian-American food culture
Pacific Northwest 2 entries

Seattle-Portland-Vancouver corridor, salmon candy / teriyaki / jojos
Illinois Valley 1 entry

LaSalle / Peru / Ottawa / Mendota corridor, Beef Roll diffusion zone
Iron Range 1 entry

Mesabi/Vermilion iron ranges, porketta and booyah belt
Basque-American Corridor 1 entry

Idaho-Nevada-California Basque sheepherder boarding-house tradition
Pennsylvania Dutch Country 1 entry

PA Dutch / Plain communities, shoofly pie, Lebanon bologna
Mining Pasty Corridor (Cornish) 1 entry

Pasty distribution: UP MI, Butte MT, Grass Valley CA, Mineral Point WI, Globe-Miami AZ, Bisbee AZ
Lowcountry South Carolina 1 entry

Charleston/Beaufort/St. Helena, frogmore stew / shrimp boil / Gullah-Geechee