My lawyer, james agrees, this is a big improvement. He does a trademark search, says, i should be clear to use cascatelli. I file the paper work to trade mark the name and to patent the shape itself, which means i can now say something i've always wanted to say, patent pending. So we have a name. The boxes are ordered. Spolini officially puts the first ever run of cascatelli on their production calendar, february eighteenth, 20 21. That day is fast approaching. And while the shape is basically done, i told you we were still tinkering, right? The last thing about the shape that we have to nail is the exact length. Steve tells me that in his tests, the dough is flowing faster through some parts of the dye than others, so some pieces are coming out wag too short, like tiny. The dye was already sent back to giovanni kanada, our dye designer in massachusetts, for alterations. But a week before the big production day, i get a call from steve volini. He tells me he's having issues getting the dough to flow evenly. Iting, tti, te disnoter, please

tell me you're joking about joking spos the ded line to be joking. Steve

offers to drive the couple of hours to massachusetts with the dye, wait for giovanni to fix it, then drive it back to new york. But in the end, giovanni decides he can mail some parts to steve that should fix the problem. On february sixteenth, two days before production, steve calls withan up date. Were'n a good spot. You think it's gong to be ok? That was the least confident. Yes, i think i'v ever got. I'm going to houn it out a little to morrow myself, and we shall be shipping there inseson. So i take a cove test, pack my bags and make the three hour drive up to spolini. It's been 13 months since my first visit. I put on a hair net, sanitize my shoes and enter the factory.