Every morning I’d spent measuring flour before dawn.

Suddenly, the room I’d built my business around couldn’t legally be used for production.

I called the compliance office.

The representative explained that a health inspection and business registration weren’t substitutes for the required land-use and occupancy approvals.

The garage had been remodeled years earlier.

Building work had been documented.

But the available approvals didn’t establish authorization for the garage’s commercial food-production use.

I stared toward the back window.