Il vero Alfredo

As these pages print it.

The only place in Italy

The splash makes a claim in one sentence, and the English article page makes a different claim in another. The splash says this is the only place in Italy. The English page says the dish has been known since twenties. The history page says the dish became famous around the world. Those three sentences are not the same sentence.

The notes quote them separately. They do not promote the only-place line into a fact the other pages forgot to repeat.

The splash sentence, as printed

After the curly opening quote, the splash says Il vero Alfredo, then closes the quote and continues in English: is in Rome Piazza Augusto Imperatore 30. Rome is the English word here, in the sentence, while the address table above it prints ROMA. There is no comma between Rome and Piazza in that sentence.

The next words are Remember ! with a space before the exclamation mark. Then: This is the only place in Italy where you can eat the Famous Fettuccine all'Alfredo. In the markup, only place in Italy is set in a different colour from the words around it. The words themselves are only place in Italy, in lower case except the sentence capital on This.

The sentence goes on: mixed by the Magic Hands of Alfredo Himself, with the World-renowned Golden Fork and Spoon presented to him by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Magic Hands, Alfredo Himself, World-renowned, Golden Fork and Spoon are capitalised that way. Famous Fettuccine is capitalised inside the quotation marks.

The note on the fork and spoon follows the gift. The note on Alfredo III° follows the portrait that sits above this sentence. The sentence itself does not use the numeral III°.

What the English article page says instead

index-eng.htm does not say only place in Italy. Its paragraph says The Real Alfredo at Piazza Augusto Imperatore 30 is the historical roman restaurant where you can eat the famous Alfredo's fettuccine known all over the world since twenties.

historical is lower case. roman is lower case. famous is lower case. twenties has no apostrophe and no 19 in front of it. The page does not write 1920s. It writes twenties.

The couple are the popular couple of american actors, with american in lower case, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. They gave as present to Alfredo a golden fork and spoon, after eating the majestic dish. From then the creative man let eat his gastronomic creation to his special and important guests with them.

let eat is the verb as printed. gave as present is the verb as printed. with them closes the paragraph. None of this is the splash sentence about the only place in Italy. The note on Via della Scrofa is where the history page locates the honeymoon meal, which this English paragraph does not name.

What the history page says about fame

The history page says the idea of the dish was born and eventually become famous around the world. become is the form printed, not became. The page does not say only place in Italy in that sentence.

It says the fate of the son and of the fettuccine, called blondes, are the strength of its worldwide reputation. It says tireless work and great enthusiasm managed to draw customers from all over the world. All over the world is not the same phrase as the only place in Italy.

The meeting with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford is placed in his restaurant in Via della Scrofa, during their honeymoon in Rome, with a space before the comma after Rome. The gift is two gold tableware. The splash's only-place sentence names the same two people and the fork and spoon, and it places Il vero Alfredo in Rome at Piazza Augusto Imperatore 30, not in Via della Scrofa.

A reader can see both locations on the site. The splash sentence does not mention Via della Scrofa. The history sentence about the gift does not mention the only place in Italy. Joining them into one claim would be a sentence neither page prints.

dining room with white tablecloths

Rome in the sentence, ROMA in the table

On the splash, the table prints 00186 ROMA and the paragraph prints is in Rome. Both are on the same page. The paragraph also omits the comma that the table puts between Imperatore and 30. The paragraph writes Piazza Augusto Imperatore 30. The table writes Piazza Augusto Imperatore, 30.

The English frameset, which is a third page, prints 00186 ROME in the no-frames table and does not contain the only-place sentence at all. Its no-frames copy is about frames and the next button. The telephone note quotes that English table, including the doubled +39 06/, and not the Magic Hands sentence.

Remember ! belongs only to the splash paragraph. The history page does not use that exclamation. The English article page does not use it either. The colour change around only place in Italy is also only on the splash.

Himself and Magic Hands and World-renowned are splash capitals. The history page says with his own hands, in lower case, for the noodles mixed with butter and fresh Parmesan in 1908. Own hands in that earlier scene are not labelled Magic Hands. The splash does not date the Magic Hands.

since twenties, left as two words

The English page's since twenties is easy to expand into a decade and a year. The page does not. It does not say the nineteen-twenties, and it does not give the year of the honeymoon. The history page is the one that says honeymoon, and it still does not give a year for that visit. The year it does give for a birth is 1908. The year it gives for the new restaurant is 1950.

1908 is not on the splash. 1950 is not in the only-place sentence. The only-place sentence has no year at all. It has Remember !, the only place in Italy, the Famous Fettuccine, the Magic Hands, and the two names.

The English page also says special and important guests, without naming any guest except Pickford and Fairbanks in the clause before. The history page says every famous person who had the honor to try the Maestosissime Fettuccine, and it does not list those persons. Honor is spelled without the u. Maestosissime is capitalised. No other guest name is printed on the pages in this archive.

The splash, the English paragraph and the history paragraph can sit side by side. Only one of them says only place in Italy. Only one of them says since twenties. Only one of them says Via della Scrofa for the meal those two actors ate.

Questions

Does the history page say this is the only place in Italy?

No. That sentence is on the splash. The history page says the dish became a worldwide reputation and names Via della Scrofa for the actors' meal.

Does since twenties include a year?

No. index-eng.htm prints since twenties. It does not print 1920. The dated years on the history page are 1908 and 1950.

Does the splash put the only-place sentence in Via della Scrofa?

No. It says Rome Piazza Augusto Imperatore 30. Via della Scrofa is in the history account of the honeymoon.