encephalophagy

As nouns the difference between food and encephalophagy

is that food is (uncountable) any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life while encephalophagy is the art or custom of eating brains as food.

As nouns the difference between brain and encephalophagy

is that brain is the control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action while encephalophagy is the art or custom of eating brains as food.

As a verb brain

is to dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.