Stephanie Martinez-Hill

Certified Translation Services Have you been told that you need a certified translation of a document? Well you’ve come to the right place! I provide certified translation services from French and Spanish into English. What type of documents need certifying? Some types of documents will require a certified translation, particularly when being used as part […]

Take a peek at my ski translation world in this article I wrote for the March-April 2023 issue of the ITI Bulletin (the Journal of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting). Find out more about how ski translations can help your business.

What happens when you’re a huge Bake Off fan and a member of the ITI Food and Drink Network? You run a sweepstake of course! A group of us have been allocated a contestant and when they leave the tent, we have to bake something from that week. Week 6 was pastry week and saw […]

Few bakes goods are as quintessentially French as the croissant. One of life’s great pleasures is tucking into layer upon layer of buttery, flaky pastry. But what if I told you their roots can be traced back to outside of France? As I touched on in my pain au raisin article, croissants belong to the […]

It’s pancake day; that crêped up on me… This week I’m getting into the pancake mood and sampling some French galettes, as opposed to crêpes. Galettes cause all sorts of problems as they have many guises. Wikipedia had some helpful background on the matter, as did fellow culinary translator Hannah Lawrence. The word galette comes […]

I came across the Tarte Tropézienne on Le Meilleur Pâtissier and was instantly intrigued. For a start, it’s not a tart. Shock horror! And secondly, it originates from St Tropez (it seems so obvious now!). Much like last week’s Spanish kings cake, it straddles the realms of bread and cake, with its brioche dough and […]

A roscón de reyes is the bread-like cake eaten to celebrate Epiphany in Spain. Yes, I know I’m a little late, but it’s hard to keep up with all my baking and have had to freeze countless potions of yule log, birthday cake, brownies and more just so I can crack on with my long […]

Challah…is it me you’re looking for? While not traditionally Spanish in origin, I was keen to seek out a Spanish challah recipe to make for the sake of it. What can I say? This loaf is eaten everywhere, and the recipe was in Spanish, so that made it fair game. Baking Challah is a type […]

Merry Christmas! ¡Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noël! ‘Tis the season to indulge in all things seasonal, including the festive chocolately delight that is the bûche de Noël. While researching French recipes I came to an interesting discovery. Most of the images of French bûches de Noël appeared to show a plain sponge wrapped around a chocolate […]

The scene is set: a broom on the wall, bowls filled with different coloured powders. One thing stands out: a candle. Surely a vital hint, but what purpose does it serve? A puzzled onlooker examines her instructions, perplexed. Crucial words are missing from the clues. Another lights a match, heats the paper, magically revealing the […]