Our bilingual kitchen - a tale of immigrant cooking
Between us, we have been immigrants for over 40 years. One has lived in the same new country for 25 years now, while the other is in her third foreign country. No plans to move yet, but who knows? Being an immigrant certainly affects the way you eat — and cook. Do you try to replicate the flavours of your childhood using only authentic ingredients, or do you immerse yourself fully into the new country's cuisine? Do you make do and adapt, or is it grandma way or the highway?
In this talk for the ITI Food and Drinks Network, we'll discuss our real-life experience of what we call multicultural cooking (spoiler alert: it's a little bit of everything). In our blog, every post is written in either Brazilian Portuguese or English and translated into the other language, but the recipes come from all around the world, in five source languages. We'll talk about how we translate tricky ingredients, decide when and how to adapt the text for the target audience, and face the challenges of translating an author who is sitting in the same office!
Read about the speakers:
Ana Carolina Ribeiro MITI CDMP is a transcreator and copywriter from English and Spanish into Brazilian Portuguese, with over 14 years’ experience in marketing texts for the technology, sports apparel, cosmetics, and hospitality sectors.
Simon Berrill MITI is a translator and writer. No longer British for Brexit reasons, he works into English from Spanish, Catalan, and French and specialises in cultural tourism and wine. They live near Barcelona, in Spain, but they definitely don't restrict themselves to paella and jamón serrano.
Network member fee: Free
ITI member fee: Free
Non-member fee: Free
Location: Zoom
Contact name: Ophélie Guenaud
Additional information: Please contact Ophélie Guenaud to register or register on the ITI Food and Drink LinkedIn event page
Contact email: [email protected]
Closing date: 04 November 2026