frase

English translation: with the best of both worlds

12:20 Feb 3, 2003
Catalan to English translations [PRO]
Cooking / Culinary / cuisine
Catalan term or phrase: frase
....una gastronomia amb personalitat, a mig camí entre l’horta i el secà.

Anyone more inspired than me for 'a mig camí entre l'horta i el secà'?

Gràcies!
Anne
AnneM (X)
Local time: 20:16
English translation:with the best of both worlds
Explanation:
"...with the best of both the industrial farmworld and the market garden"

Something like that???

The idea seems to be that "dry farming" (relying on rain, rather than irigating the fields) is a large scale process while the other is a small scale process often involving irrigation. However, your context should help you decide here.

Cheers,

Berni
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Berni Armstrong
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Local time: 20:16
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Summary of answers provided
4half-way between...
Fausto Navarro de Vicente-Gella
4combining...
Paul Roige (X)
3with the best of both worlds
Berni Armstrong


  

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half-way between...


Explanation:
half-way between irrigated and dry-farmed agriculture.
I guess horta is used in opposition to secà in order to show that the gastronomy has a little of both worlds.


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Fausto Navarro de Vicente-Gella
Spain
Local time: 20:16
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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with the best of both worlds


Explanation:
"...with the best of both the industrial farmworld and the market garden"

Something like that???

The idea seems to be that "dry farming" (relying on rain, rather than irigating the fields) is a large scale process while the other is a small scale process often involving irrigation. However, your context should help you decide here.

Cheers,

Berni

Berni Armstrong
Spain
Local time: 20:16
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combining...


Explanation:
"combining dry farm and orchard produce".
Yet another possibility.
Happy pickings
Paul :-)

Paul Roige (X)
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Local time: 20:16
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in CatalanCatalan
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