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I am starting a cooking blog which is named Cooking Tale. I wanted a person to translate the name and he said クッキング・テール is ok. But when I search for this name in dictionaries, it says "tail" not "tale". Is this a correct use?
Cooking Tale - クッキング・テール
The literal translation is 料理の話. I think クッキング will get through to Japanese people but テール as the word "tale" may not get through to them. As you found in your search, I think a lot of Japanese people may think テール is the word "しっぽ(tail)", or may not know テール.
I think テイル be considered. Here are some Japanese transliterations that use that to transliterate tale:
That said it seems both are in use. Wikipedia lists both フェアリーテール and フェアリーテイル as used to transliterate fairy tail and fairy tale.
