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cocina cercana

English translation: local cuisine; regional cuisine

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Spanish term or phrase:	cocina cercana
English translation:	local cuisine; regional cuisine
Entered by:	Carol Gullidge

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09:16 Nov 12, 2009

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Cooking / Culinary

Spanish term or phrase: cocina cercana

This term comes from the following excerpt: "Fogones de reconocido prestigio se funden con una cocina cercana, aligerada y equilibrada que se armoniza sin perder la personalidad con los nuevos tiempos."

Here's another example: "En el ámbito rural hay que desarrollar una cocina cercana con productos de la tierra”

lganse2 KudoZ activity Questions: 22 (none open) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 1
Local time: 03:45

local cuisine

Explanation:
OR

regional cuisine

I think this is what they're promoting: freshness, low food miles, and local produce

Selected response from:

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:45

Grading comment

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +9

local cuisine

Carol Gullidge

4 +5

traditional cuisine

LisaMac

3 +1

home-style / home-made cuisine

Kathleen Misson

4 -3

near cuisine

Constantinos Faridis

Discussion entries: 10

Carol Gullidge

United Kingdom

Constantinos

10:30 Nov 17, 2009

I know! So I really wonder why you are so adamant about how the English language should be spoken... Please believe me, that quoting literally from the dictionary rarely works in any language, let alone English

Constantinos Faridis

Greece

10:26 Nov 17, 2009

para decir la verdad yo no hablo inglés...solo conozco pocas cosas

Carol Gullidge

United Kingdom

Constantinos, re dictionary defs

10:24 Nov 17, 2009

in the same way that you translated cocina as cuisine, and not cooking, kitchen or cookery, a similar decision has to be taken regarding cercana. The context has to be taken into account, as well as idiomacy in the target language. Which is why the literal translation doesn't work here. Quite simply, "near" and "cuisine" don't collocate in English. I'm sure you must have come across this sort of thing in your own numerous language pairs.

Constantinos Faridis

Greece

10:20 Nov 17, 2009

cocina local - local cuisine.
cocina tradicional - traditional cusine.
cocina cercana - __???

Carol Gullidge

United Kingdom

well Constantinos

10:12 Nov 17, 2009

if there were only one way to translate every single foreign word or expression, then we'd all be out of a job! Clients would simply all be able to look everything up in the dictionary, and this site would certainly be redundant - as would we all!

Constantinos Faridis

Greece

09:42 Nov 17, 2009

oh! y la "cocina local" ¿cómo la traduciríais?

Carol Gullidge

United Kingdom

no doubt!

11:21 Nov 12, 2009

although that's perhaps beside the point, if I understand you correctly (not totally sure that I do!). I don't see food miles as being crucial to the interpretation, but just an added bonus that might attract certain discerning (!) and environmentally-conscious people. I think the main point is that they want to encourage "cocina cercana", using "productos de la tierra" - or local produce - as in the 2nd example given.

aceavila - Noni

More "quality tourism"...

11:03 Nov 12, 2009

...and from the UK there no doubt!

Carol Gullidge

United Kingdom

Food miles

10:44 Nov 12, 2009

yet in the Alpujarras it's a different story

aceavila - Noni

Food miles

10:26 Nov 12, 2009

How I wish this were likely to be a consideration included in the concept of cercana... not yet in Spain (at least in our area - Castilla y León), I fear. People glaze over with incomprehension every time I talk about it....

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

traditional cuisine

Explanation:
-

LisaMac
Spain
Local time: 03:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 128

20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

home-style / home-made cuisine

Explanation:
Another suggestion.

Kathleen Misson
Local time: 03:45
Native speaker of:

English

26 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +9

local cuisine

Explanation:
OR

regional cuisine

I think this is what they're promoting: freshness, low food miles, and local produce

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 265

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

hjs45: I personally like "local produce", even if the sentence would have to be changed around.

14 mins

-> many thanks hjs45! I think the local produce is covered by "productos de la tierra". For "tierra", I'm also thinking of the French "du terroir", vaguely meaning local...(+ implying a whole load more)

agree

Gilla Evans: yes, regional cuisine using local produce is what I think they are getting at

22 mins

-> many thanks Gilla - me too!

agree

franglish: with Gilla. Bon appétit!

1 hr

-> many thanks franglish!

agree

Mariana Hauber: I agree!

1 hr

-> many thanks mbht!

agree

Ian Jones

1 hr

-> many thanks Ian!

agree

Rod Brookes: yes, in my experience the specifically local aspect seems to be one of the main selling points in Spanish upmarket restaurant menus, catalogues of gastronomic products, etc

2 hrs

-> many thanks Rod! I think it's a growing trend worldwide

agree

Laura Nagle

3 hrs

-> many thanks Laura!

agree

Jenni Lukac

6 hrs

-> many thanks Jenni!

agree

eski: Good choice! :)) eski

6 hrs

-> many thanks eski :))

agree

David Ronder

12 hrs

-> many thanks David!

disagree

Constantinos Faridis: cercana =near

21 hrs

-> sorry, but near cuisine isn't English//too literal a quote, obvious to an EN speaker, and "near" is by no means the only dictionary def. And in any case, a Neutral would have sufficed to make your point - as I originally posted on your answer

32 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -3

near cuisine

Explanation:
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Constantinos Faridis
Greece
Local time: 04:45
Native speaker of: Greek
PRO pts in category: 8

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Changes made by editors

Nov 17, 2009 - Changes made by Carol Gullidge:
Edited KOG entry	Carol Gullidge's old entry - "cocina cercana" => "local cuisine"
Nov 17, 2009 - Changes made by Carol Gullidge:
Created KOG entry	KudoZ term => KOG term

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