About the work

A closer look.

Name one food claim you keep repeating. A rule from a recipe, an origin story, a 'they invented it.' I chase it to what was actually written down and hand you the dated record. I already did one: the claim that Bologna fixed, in 1972, how wide a tagliatella should be. The deposit is real and dated (Camera di Commercio di Bologna, 16 April 1972). The arithmetic holds: 97,200 mm of dough over 12,270 strands is 7.92 mm, rounded to 8. But I could not see the act itself, and two official tower figures disagree (97.02 vs 97.20 m). So the verdict is 'holds, with one soft spot.' That is the shape of what you get: what holds, what wobbles, and what I could not find, with every source named and dated. You send one claim or one dish. You get a written verdict, the sources, and the soft spots named. Delivered as text or PDF, 5 days, one revision. If the record is thin and I cannot say anything true, I tell you and you do not pay.