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Exploring the USDA's Food Desert Locator

Last week, the USDA released the Food Desert Locator, an interactive map which allows users to see where there is poor food access across the country. This map was inspired and influenced by Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, and is meant to further educate Americans on food distribution in the country.

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Does This Food-By-State Map Look Accurate?

The good folks of I Can Haz Cheezburger make us squee all the time, but it's not always food-related enough to blog here. This map is though! Over on noms.icanhascheezburger.com, they put together a state-by-state breakdown of quintessential regional foods. Fry bread for Arizona; Green Jell-O for Utah. Do you think they picked the right single food to represent each state?

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Map: Barbecue Contests, Cookouts, and Festivals in the United States

Last week, we shared a national guide to barbecue events in the United States. Though my knowledge of barbecue events is pretty limited, I included as many local events as I could find. But I thought it'd be interesting to open things up to anyone out there. Here's a simple Google map for plotting barbecue events across America. We've made it an open collaboration, so any of you can add to it! And we hope you will.

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Plan a Road Trip with Southern Foodways Alliance's Oral History Interactive Map

If you plan on road tripping around the South this summer, check out the Southern Foodways Alliance's Oral History Interactive Map. The map features restaurants, roadside stands, and purveyors from Virginia to Texas with an Oral History about each location. Use the Trip Builder to plan an itinerary around the eateries along your route. There are also specific trails for barbecue, boudin, gumbo, and tamales.

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Data Visualization: Mapping a Taco's Origins

This map by a group of architecture students illustrates the origins of the ingredients from a taco in San Francisco.

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Data Visualization: Food Consumption and Obesity Maps

[Maps: Daily Yonder] Daily Yonder, a blog devoted to rural American goings-on, created these fascinating maps about eating habits across the country using the USDA's Food Environment Atlas. It's hard to simplify the data into clear, absolute terms, but in most cases, the higher the fruit and vegetable consumption, the lower the obesity rate. Whoa Colorado, you are a pretty skinny state! Here are just two of the many maps Daily Yonder shares relating to food and health. [via Ezra Klein and @gastropoda] Related Data Visualization: Subway Locations in the U.S. Data Visualization: Distances to Nearest McDonald's Data Visualization: Soda vs. Pop vs. Whatever...

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Data Visualization: Subway Locations in the U.S.

[Image: Dagoosh!] If you've ever passed a Subway and thought, "Wait, didn't i just pass one 20 seconds ago?" this map of Subway locations in the U.S. from Dagoosh! won't surprise you. Aside from the lack of a fiery red glow, It doesn't look very different from the McDonald's locations map. The farthest you can be from a Subway is 138 miles, between the towns of Austin and Eureka. [via Buzzfeed]...

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Data Visualization: Distances to Nearest McDonald's

[Map: Weather Sealed] In an attempt to find the most remote piece of wilderness in the lower 48 states, Stephen Von Worley of the blog Weather Sealed created this visualization that represents distances to the nearest McDonald's. Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald's, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car! [via Chris H.]...

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Soda vs. Pop vs. Whatever: What Do You Call Cola Drinks?

This pop vs. soda map is circulating again. It's from waaaaaay back, but, funny enough, we've never blogged about it on Serious Eats. Probably because it was way old even when we launched in late 2006. Do you call that brown-sugar-water stuff soda or pop? Or something else entirely? When I was a kid, I remember an older gent at my church urging us youngsters to go get some "fizzler" while there was still some left. Never heard that one before or since. Oh well. [via Food Mayhem]...

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Google Map of Starbucks Closing

One of the many uses of a Google map: informing you which Starbucks are shutting down. Here's a handy map provided by CNN Money, based on a list released Thursday of the 616 stores closing by the first half of 2009. Starbucks operates 7,087 stores in the United States, so this represents an 8.7 percent drop. Is your Starbucks on its last grinds? If so, what will you do without it? Related R.I.P. Some of Our Favorite 600 Starbucks Starbucks' Vivanno Vs. Jamba Juice Smoothies...

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