Monday, February 21, 2005
Want some...Fried Rice? Need a cookbook title suggestion....
My wife, who translates cookbooks, got a doozy in the mail today. With names changed to protect the guilty, the book, written by an older woman who is a famous local chef, was entitled Mrs. Chen Teaches Fried Rice (Chen taitai jiao ni chao fan). For those of you who aren't up on the local slang, "fried rice' is slang for makin' the beast with two backs. For some reason, I feel urgently compelled to translate this title exactly, you know, like "Mrs Chen Teaches Home Cookin'".....got any suggestions for a comparable idiom?
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3 comments:
Love that one Michael, except that is Iago's line in Othello, and you know how he gets me going!
Sorry, man! I thought you'd appreciate the Shakespeare reference!
the beast yes, the beast is back, two backs and yes that is a good title for that book no matter who gets going where
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