Food & culture · 2026
Cookbook translation — every recipe, exactly as written.
Cookbooks are the hardest layout in publishing: two-column recipes, step lists, photography, sidebars, and measurements that must land on the right line. We translate the words and rebuild every page so the book still works in a working kitchen — for $0.02 a page.
Editorial: $4.80 — with the native literary review.
Photo-heavy pages cost the same as text-heavy ones — pricing is per page.
Built for paperback upload or your printer — not a text export to repair.
The difference
Why cookbooks break — and how ours don't.
What most tools do
They extract raw text, translate it, and pour it into a generic template. Ingredient columns collapse into paragraphs, photos detach from their recipes, steps lose their numbering — and a cookbook stops working in the kitchen.
What page-faithful does
Every page is rebuilt with the translation placed into the original design: ingredient lines stay lines, steps stay numbered, photography keeps its position, and measurements stay attached to the right step.
Recipe by recipe
What a translated cookbook keeps.
- 01
Ingredient structure
Lines stay lines, quantities stay attached to the right item, and the glossary keeps dish names and terms consistent to the index.
- 02
Photography
Full-page shots and step photos hold their exact positions, with captions and headings translated in place.
- 03
Dish names, your call
Keep a name in the original with a translation beside it, translate fully, or both — the brief applies your choice everywhere.
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Measurements in context
Quantities land on the right ingredient and step — Editorial's review keeps the phrasing natural for home cooks in the target language.
Cookbook questions, answered.
Short answers about translating recipe books.
What happens to ingredient lists and measurements?
Ingredient lists keep their structure — lines stay lines, quantities stay attached to the right item, and the glossary keeps dish names and ingredient terms consistent from the first chapter to the index.
Do the food photos stay in place?
Yes — photography holds its exact position on every page, with translated captions and headings re-set around it. The layout is the part of a cookbook that makes it usable, and it's the part we preserve.
Can you keep dish names in the original language?
You decide per term in the translation brief: keep a dish name in the original with a translated explanation beside it, translate it fully, or both. The glossary applies your choice consistently everywhere.
How much does a cookbook cost to translate?
A typical 120-page cookbook is $2.40 on Essential or $4.80 on Editorial — per-page pricing means photo-heavy pages cost the same as text-heavy ones.
Your kitchen, their kitchen.
Upload the cookbook PDF and see the exact price from its real page count.
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