On the multicultural character of restaurant menus: a translational perspective

Abstract

Starting from the reality that, in today’s globalized world, people have easy access to a wide range of cuisines from different cultures, the present paper discusses the multicultural nature of the menus offered by the Romanian restaurants, and especially by those specific to the Banat region, with the ultimate purpose of analysing the way in which food names of various origins are rendered in the English variants of these menus. The results of this analysis are relevant for the manner in which the various culture-specific features of restaurant menus are handled in the process of translation into a foreign language.