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Food vs Cambro - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between food and cambro

is that food is (uncountable) any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life while cambro is an insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.

food

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
      Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
  • (countable) A foodstuff.
  • (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
    • Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
  • * (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
    • This may prove food to my displeasure.
  • * (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Wordsworth)
    • In this moment there is life and food / For future years.

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "food": raw, cooked, baked, fried, grilled, processed, healthy, unhealthy, wholesome, nutritious, safe, toxic, tainted, adulterated, tasty, delicious, fresh, stale, sweet, sour, spicy, exotic, marine.

    Synonyms

    * (substance consumed by living organisms) bellytimber, chow (slang), comestible (formal), eats (slang), feed (for domesticated animals), fodder (for domesticated animals), foodstuffs, nosh (slang), nourishment, sustenance, victuals * (anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea) brainfood * (foodstuff) bellytimber, foodstuff

    Derived terms

    * cat food * comfort food * dog food * fast food * food bank * food chain * food fight * food for thought * food pyramid * food stamp * foodstuff * foody * health food * junk food * rabbit food * seafood * soul food * whole food

    Related terms

    * feed * fodder

    See also

    * breakfast * brunch * dinner * dunch * lunch, luncheon * meal * supper *

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    cambro

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
  • * 2000 , Christopher Allen, Kimberly Allen, A Butler's Life: Scenes from the Other Side of the Silver Salver , page 192:
    • At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros .
  • * 2003 , Sony Bode, Successful catering , page 64:
    • During transportation and set-up, a holding oven, or cambro , is usually required to keep food hot. These are used to keep dinner rolls, roasts, turkeys, chicken breasts and all other hot food at the right temperature
  • * 2006 , Lora Arduser, Douglas Robert Brown, The professional caterer's handbook , page 532:
    • You'll find a multitude of uses for these—cooking a chicken stew to baking cookies, transporting individual appetizers and using as shelves in cambros .
  • * 2008 , Maura Knight, Feed , page 88:
    • Pickles rushed me into the manager's office, my hand still stuffed in a cambro of tomato goo.