Thanksgiving recipes can be handed down for generations within families. But, did you know that we have holiday culinary creations by states? Using data from over 10 years’ worth of Google searches, the New York Times has identified the most distinct Thanksgiving recipes searches for each of the 50 United States.

The Time’s Upshot Blog presents the findings with this disclaimer:

You should not interpret the dishes here as the most iconic Thanksgiving recipes in each state, or even a state’s favorite dish. It’s possible that some dishes are so central to a state’s culture that people there don’t need to search for them on the web, for instance.

Favorite Unfamiliar Thanksgiving Recipes

Here are a few of my favorites:

Take-Away’s

The business take-away for me was that there is a lot of data available in the public domain. You just have to know how to mine it and interpret it. The information can help a business person with marketing and investment decisions as well as with other projections.

Back to the non-business side—Check out the complete results and a map of all the findings of off-the-beaten-path Thanksgiving recipes.

The Thanksgiving Recipes Googled in Every State

Like many other readers, we were fascinated by the 50-dishes-for-50-states Thanksgiving mega-menu that our colleagues in the Food section recently produced. The piece – and the many reactions to it – got us wondering what a democratic version of the project might look like. That is, if the residents of every state could vote for distinct Thanksgiving dishes, what would each state’s dish be? Read the rest of the post…