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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

gastronomie de terroir

English translation:

regional cuisine using (the best) local produce

Added to glossary by Hattie Hill
Mar 21, 2007 07:15
17 yrs ago
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French term

gastronomie de terroir

French to English Other Cooking / Culinary
Know what it means, but it's 3:15 am...

Terre de traditions, la Champagne-Ardenne s'est composée au fil des siècles une **gastronomie de terroir**

Regional cuisine?

Thanks!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +15 regional cuisine using (the best) local produce
3 regional cooking
3 traditional country cuisine
3 cuisine with a distinctive tang

Discussion

writeaway Mar 21, 2007:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/1710018
Julie Barber Mar 21, 2007:
I'll go for Michelle's answer!
Hattie Hill (asker) Mar 21, 2007:
the adjective helps. thanks.
Bailatjones Mar 21, 2007:
I like your regional cuisine, why not 'fine regional cuisine' to make it a bit more elegant.

Proposed translations

+15
59 mins
Selected

regional cuisine using (the best) local produce

I know it's a bit long winded but 'terroir' has so many underlying meanings. I do agree that cuisine is better over cooking.
Peer comment(s):
agree katsy
22 mins
thank you
agree Nathalie Elson
24 mins
thank you
agree Cervin
30 mins
thank you
agree Claire Cox
30 mins
thank you
agree Mark Nathan : Has developed a regional cuisine based on local produce
32 mins
Thank you, how about set around as opposed to based on?
agree Carol Gullidge : Agree with you that there's no single-wd translation for terroir. Also like Mark's phrasing.
40 mins
Thank you, I love the way ideas can bounce off each other
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
50 mins
thank you
agree cmwilliams (X)
1 hr
thank you
agree EJP
1 hr
thank you
agree Jacqui Audouy : But I think it needs an indication of the gastronomy aspect - how about "gourmet cuisine using the best local produce" - regional and local being a bit repetetive
1 hr
Thank you, point taken but the thing is both need underlining so if there's room why not take it a step further to regional gourmet cuisine?
agree Conor McAuley : Fine regional cuisine? // fine wines
2 hrs
thank you
agree Bourth (X) : Authentic regional cuisine
2 hrs
Thank you
agree jonno : aye, aye, just like you say: champion tucker from just down the road
2 hrs
thank you, that is exactly IT, a pity it might not go down well with the client ;-)
neutral Najib Aloui : "regional" lacks the smell of the earth...in a allegoric sense, of course.
2 hrs
but produce doesn't
agree emiledgar : fine regional cuisine
3 hrs
thank you
agree kironne
22 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks a lot to all!"
3 mins

regional cooking

My take
Peer comment(s):
neutral Tom Bishop : I suspect that the writer may have intended to include not simply the cuisine but also other aspects such as wines.
46 mins
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3 hrs

traditional country cuisine

The "terroir" is not just the region , it's before all a rural setting which English calls "country"; it's the land , the earth with its historical and cultural depth...

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Note added at 4 hrs (2007-03-21 11:36:54 GMT)
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regions in France are born of a modern territorial division , under Napoléon, perhaps...They include both country and city, their "smell" is rather that of "paperasse" and bureaucratie...The "terroir" evoques the earth, the roots , the peasantry ...
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8 hrs

cuisine with a distinctive tang

circumlocution seems unavoidable on this one
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