Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps

Question

I'm reading an English book which features a French menu as a random quote.

When I look at the sentence:

Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps.

And the context I don't see how the author gets the English translation of:

Good cooking fakes time.

Is the author correct in his interpretation and if so can anyone elaborate on what I'm missing here?

Maybe it would help us cover the "what am I missing" part of your question if you could give us an idea (even a rough one) of how you would have gone about translating it. — Papa Poule, Feb 4, 2017 at 13:25
@PapaPoule my translation was the same as Alexandre's answer — Philip Kirkbride, Feb 4, 2017 at 13:35

Extraneous · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-04 13:28:17Z

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Good cooking fakes time

is a (very unfortunate) typo. The correct translation of "Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps" is:

Good cooking takes time

or, even better:

Good cooking takes some time

answered Feb 4, 2017 at 13:28

Extraneous

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Yes that was my interpretation too.
– Philip Kirkbride
Feb 4, 2017 at 13:35
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This typo has been corrected in later printings.
– Jeffrey Bosboom
Feb 4, 2017 at 17:50

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