Il vero Alfredo

As these pages print it.

Ines, 1908, and the first dish

The history page dates one event and one dish to the same year. In 1908 Ines gave birth to their firstborn. Alfredo, concerned for her health, mixed noodles with butter and fresh Parmesan, prayed to St. Anna, and served the dish with a sentence the page prints with a missing letter.

The page also calls the child Alfred II in that paragraph, without the o that it uses everywhere else for Alfredo. The missing letter and the shortened name stay in the note, because they are what the page prints.

The boy, the space, and the wife

The history begins: Alfredo Di Lelio, just a boy , had a great desire to work and a strong passion for cooking. There is a space before the comma after boy. Di Lelio is the only surname in the paragraph. The sentence says the cooking led him to success and worldwide fame, starting with a small family restaurant. It does not name the street of that first restaurant yet.

The next sentence is the birth. It all started when his wife Ines, in 1908, gave birth to their firstborn. Ines has no surname on the page. 1908 is the year. firstborn is the word, not a personal name.

The following sentence says the woman was very prostrate after the birth of Alfred II. Alfred has no o. II is the Roman numeral. The page does not write Alfredo II in this sentence. It writes Alfred II. The caption under the second portrait, elsewhere on the same page, is Alfredo II. The alt of that portrait is Alfredo secondo. The birth sentence and the caption are not the same string. The note on the third Alfredo sets those captions out one by one.

Her husband, concerned for her health, did everything to make her regain strength with healthy and nutrients foods. nutrients foods is the phrase. The page does not write nutritious. The double spacing in the markup does not add a word between healthy and and.

Piazza Rosa, 1908
Piazza Rosa, 1908

The dish and the sentence he said

The page says it was here that the idea of the dish was born that eventually become famous around the world. become, not became. It does not yet say fettuccine in this sentence.

The next sentence says that with his own hands he prepared noodles mixed with butter and fresh Parmesan. Parmesan is capitalised. butter is not. noodles is the word here, not fettuccine. own hands is lower case, unlike the Magic Hands on the splash.

Then he made a prayer to St. Anna, and the parenthesis says protector of pregnant women. St. is abbreviated. Anna is capitalised. The page does not add a church or a date for the prayer beyond the 1908 of the birth.

He served this dish to Ines saying: If you don’y like it I eat. The letter after don is a right single quote, and the next letter is y, not t. The page prints don’y. There is no question mark. She not only ate with pleasure, but also suggested adding to the the menu at their small restaurant. the the is printed twice. The page does not name the dish on that menu in this sentence. The only-place note is the splash sentence, which is a different page and a different claim.

The son and the blondes

The following sentence is the one that explains the nickname. The fate of these two Alfredo, in quotes contemporaneous birth, his son and blondes, as he used to lovingly call fettuccine, are the strength of its worldwide reputation.

two Alfredo is printed that way, without a plural s on Alfredo. contemporaneous birth is in quotation marks. blondes is in quotation marks and is the word he used for the fettuccine. The page says lovingly. It says the fate of the two are, with a plural verb after a construction that the sentence itself tangles.

This is the first time this paragraph uses the word fettuccine. The mixture in the sentence before was noodles, butter, and fresh Parmesan. The nickname blondes is not used on the splash. The splash says Famous Fettuccine all'Alfredo and does not mention Ines, 1908, or St. Anna.

His tireless work, combined with great enthusiasm, managed to draw customers from all over the world. That sentence ends the birth passage. It still does not name a street. The note on Via della Scrofa begins where the actors enter, in the next part of the same history page.

What 1908 is not asked to cover

The page does not say the golden fork existed in 1908. The fork and spoon come later, with Fairbanks and Pickford, and without a year. The page does not say the restaurant was already in Piazza Augusto Imperatore in 1908. That square appears in the 1950 sentence.

The page does not give Ines a second appearance. She is the wife, the mother of the firstborn, the person who ate with pleasure, and the person who suggested the menu. She is not named in the dynasty sentence about father, son, and grandson.

Alfred II in the birth sentence is not explained. The later sentence calls Armando Alfredo II, in the restaurant in Via della Scrofa. The page does not write a line that says Alfred II and Armando are the same person. The note does not add that line either. It leaves the two spellings where the page left them.

The photograph with the alt Piazza Rosa sits in the middle of this opening, in the markup, between the boy sentence and the birth sentence. Its alt is Piazza Rosa, not a picture of Ines, and not a picture of the dish. The file is piazzarosa.JPG.

Spellings worth keeping in view

A cleaned-up retelling would fix don’y, nutrients, the the, become, Alfred, and blondes. The prayer names St. Anna and stops. No second saint is printed beside her. This page did not. The note keeps them because a later reader of the live history page will find those strings, not the corrected ones.

St. Anna remains protector of pregnant women, in the parenthesis, and nowhere else on the archived pages. fresh Parmesan remains the cheese. butter remains the fat. noodles remains the word in the mixing sentence, and fettuccine arrives with the nickname blondes.

The small family restaurant at the start, and their small restaurant at the end of the menu sentence, are both called small. Neither sentence gives a piazza or a street number. The dynasty note takes the later sentences, where Armando and Alfredo III and the year 1950 are named.

The splash portrait Alfredo III° is not in this 1908 paragraph. The paragraph's child is the firstborn, called Alfred II in that one sentence. The grandson is not born on this page in 1908.

Questions

What year does the history page give for the birth?

1908. Ines gave birth to their firstborn. The page calls the child Alfred II in that sentence, without the o.

What is the sentence he says to Ines?

If you don’y like it I eat. The page prints don’y, with a right quote between n and y. She ate with pleasure and suggested adding the dish to the menu.

Does this paragraph name the golden fork?

No. It names noodles, butter, fresh Parmesan, St. Anna, and the nickname blondes. The fork is in the later passage about Pickford and Fairbanks.