noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a debt/food/housing etc crisis
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The failure of the crop this year will create a food crisis.
a department store/video store/food store etc chain
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Morgan was the owner of a computer store chain.
a food convoy (= taking food )
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Troops were sent to guard the food convoys.
a food crop
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The demand for ethanol has reduced the amount of corn grown as a food crop.
a food source
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Slugs attack potatoes in late summer, when other food sources are disappearing.
a food/medicine/clothes cupboard British English
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The medicine cupboard's in the bathroom.
a water/food/housing etc shortage
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The water shortage was reaching crisis proportions.
a water/food/milk etc container
an item of food/a food item
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Ice cream was probably her favourite item of food.
an item of food/a food item
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Ice cream was probably her favourite item of food.
baby clothes/food
cat food
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He bought some cans of cat food.
comfort food (= food that you eat to make you feel relaxed and happy )
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I find pasta and cheese is a great comfort food.
comfort food
contaminated food/blood/water supplies etc
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The infection was traced to contaminated food.
convenience food
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We eat too little fresh food, relying instead on convenience foods.
cook food
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The book also gives advice on healthy ways of cooking food.
devil's food cake
dog food
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a can of dog food
fast food
fish food (= for feeding fish )
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I sprinkled some fish food into the tank.
food additives
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permitted food additives
food aid
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The government launched an appeal for emergency food aid for 60,000 people.
food allergy
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a food allergy
food bank
food chain
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Pollution is affecting many creatures lower down the food chain.
food colouring
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green food colouring
food coupon
food court
food group
food hygiene
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a food hygiene training course
food miles
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Reducing food miles would reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
food poisoning
food preferences
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Very young children may have clear food preferences.
food processor
food safety (= how safe food is to eat )
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New food safety laws say that sandwiches for sale in shops must be kept refrigerated.
food stamp
food/alcohol/calorie etc intake
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Sickness may develop from inadequate fluid intake.
food/clothes/meat etc ration
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the weekly meat ration
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a coal ration of 4 kg a month
food/fashion/sports etc maven
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A food maven could also be called a gourmet.
food/glucose/lactose intolerance
food/oil/milk etc production
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agricultural production and distribution
fuel/clothes/food etc rationing
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News of bread rationing created panic buying.
functional food
health food
hot and cold food
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The bar serves hot and cold food .
house/food/oil etc prices
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A poor harvest led to higher food prices.
junk food
oil/coal/food imports
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The country is dependent on oil imports for almost all its basic energy needs.
organic food/vegetables etc
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Our restaurant uses only fresh organic vegetables.
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Many people think that organic food is better for health.
pet food
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cans of pet food
snack foods
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snack foods like crisps and peanuts
solid food (= bread, meat etc )
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Is the baby eating solid food yet?
soul food
starchy foods
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starchy foods
toying with...food
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Laura was toying with her food and looking increasingly bored.
wholesome food/fare/meal etc
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well-balanced wholesome meals
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fast
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This boom in fast food is providing strong competition for both staff restaurants and school meal services.
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Knutson frequently uses the slow cooker and oven for food pre tion instead of the microwave and fast foods.
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Go to fast food places at peak hours, when extra cooks and cashiers are working.
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Wendy's rejoined the fast food market in Great Britain after an absence of nearly six years.
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In 1993 more than 500 people fell ill and four died after eating hamburgers from the Jack-in-the-Box fast food chain.
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In an era of fast food , subsistence incomes don't make for a culinary culture.
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This is the first time a high street fast food chain has linked up with a theme park.
fresh
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The damp retreated down the walls, the gardens came back to life and there was fresh food in the kitchen.
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Those suggestions are ways to make fresh foods appealing to the eye and fun to eat.
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Even fresh food , if stored for long periods, will lose its vitamin content.
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Purified water. Fresh food and ice cream flown into combat zones: even pizzas.
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They still expected to get cheap baked beans, but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food .
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Buy fresh foods when they are in plentiful supply, that is, in season. 12.
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Should be ready Wednesday. Fresh food - not really obtainable locally.
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Sometimes the price advantage lies with fresh , unmodified food and sometimes with food processed in some way.
frozen
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Microwave combination ovens can successfully prime cook fresh and frozen foods and regenerate ready cooked dishes from chilled and frozen.
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It can also be used to cut frozen food , formica, perspex and plastic piping.
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Also, buying canned or frozen food rather than fresh food cuts down our vitamin intake by as much as 25-30 percent.
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Their range of frozen foods is supplemented with vitamins, and suitable for marine and freshwater tanks.
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Eat as much fresh produce as possible rather than relying on tinned, packed and frozen foods .
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As soon as your example is settled and feeding upon these live foods , it should be encouraged on to freeze-dried and frozen foods.
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Live food is the best diet for them although fresh or frozen meaty foods of small particle size can be substituted.
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And earlier this month he spent a night in a frozen food store.
good
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The Baldry Restaurant serves good food at a reasonable price and the Rowan Tree is good for vegetarian food.
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Cramond Inn A favourite resort for all who enjoy good food in picturesque surroundings.
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Amelia's must have the better food .
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There must be some good food round here somewhere.
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We were plied with the best food he could offer, drenched in expensive ghee.
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What is good for the food industry can be fatally bad for the health of the entire nation.
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When they did, they learned that they were good at buying food and merchandising it in their stores.
hot
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They had microwave ovens where he was able to heat up a portion of hot food to eat in the car.
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Toucans sit in cages and aluminum pots steam with hot food , stewed beef and chicken or sausage and potatoes.
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Perhaps after the hot food in the evening?
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We delivered hot food , clothing, mail, and ammunition to them every day.
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Keep hot food and cold food cold.
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There are spice specialty stores, catalogs and magazines. Hot and spicy food shows are burning a path across the country.
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An application has been made to establish a hot food shop adjacent to the chip shop.
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So school becomes a sanctuary, a haven of stability, hot food and teachers who care.
organic
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The organic food most commonly found in a delicatessen is cheese.
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The children ate organic foods from health food stores and from the garden at their home.
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April 1992: the first wholesale organic food market was opened in London.
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The secret of the remarkable production by plants of both oxygen and organic food substances is of course photosynthesis.
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This price gulf mirrors the problem with organic food: most shoppers are put off buying it because it's too expensive.
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Features / Force of nature / Organic food is good, and good for the environment.
pet
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Spillers pet foods had a resilient first half despite the continuing pressure on pet food margins.
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Peter Brabeck, Nestle chief executive, has shown a preference for pet food over people food.
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Most of the beef exported ends up as hamburgers, pet food , processed meats and baby foods.
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Spending on pet food was up more than seven percent in 1991.
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Particularly popular with customers were the canned nuts, home remedies, pizzas, pasta, cereals and canned pet foods range.
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Save-a-Can banks accept all metal tins including drink, food and pet food cans.
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The deal would significantly boost Nestle's position in the pet food market.
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aid
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Only 100,000 tonnes of an estimated 500,000 tonnes of food aid required throughout the country had been distributed by early July.
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Mogadishu airport had not been used for relief supplies since June 1, when food aid had been stolen at gunpoint.
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The move comes after bandits stole half of the food aid sent to save starving millions in the devastated country.
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Aid officials and provisional government spokespersons appealed for urgent medical and food aid.
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Some food aid is already going in.
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Objective: provision of food aid and emergency relief to developing countries.
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This statement is clearly true in the context of food aid .
baby
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The content of baby food varies with the brand and the type of product.
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Fresh baby food sets kids up for eating high-fiber foods throughout childhood, too.
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Most of the beef exported ends up as hamburgers, pet food , processed meats and baby foods.
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Artificial additives such as colourings, sweeteners and flavour enhancers aren't permitted in baby foods .
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Manufacturers are reducing or removing sugars from baby foods , so go for those with no added sugar.
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There's no need to feel guilty if you do use baby foods but try not to rely on them.
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It is as thick as baby food and leaves a soft sediment on his top lip.
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There is a tendency to start on the second stage of commercially produced baby foods at this point.
cat
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Indeed if you include our exports, we are the largest manufacturer of dried cat food in the country.
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The walls and ceilings were black, and the sole illumination was provided by black candles set in empty cat food cans.
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Most of them looked as if they had been moulded in empty cat food tins.
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She used to give them Pedigree Chum too, but it was mostly cat food .
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This is sold, alongside Omega cat food , through specialist outlets such as pet shops, garden centres and agricultural merchants.
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Marie bought loads of cat food before she left, so there's plenty for him.
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Our private label business in the supermarkets continues to grow with our cat food products selling extremely well in the major multiples.
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This predominance of cans is a correct impression of the country's cat food market.
chain
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Caesium accumulates up the food chain from the soil through vegetation to contaminate meat.
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Its scientists next plan to assess whether potential contamination carried in air or the food chain could be affecting islanders' health.
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Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain .
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In 1993 more than 500 people fell ill and four died after eating hamburgers from the Jack-in-the-Box fast food chain .
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The colour, as with the Scarlet Ibis, originates from blue-green algae at the lower end of the food chain .
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Following food chains can lead to exciting discoveries.
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This poses a threat to agriculture and the food chain , and consequently to human health.
convenience
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It's a good buy, particularly if you frequently heat convenience foods .
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To conclude this discussion of convenience foods , two points can be made.
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This vitamin loss is a reason why those expensive ready-made and overcooked convenience foods are not as nourishing.
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They selected 166 convenience foods for cost comparisons with home prepared counterparts.
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If you live a fast, hectic life and you eat mostly ready-made convenience foods , try to consider some other alternatives.
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They reported that quality-wise, the convenience foods did not differ significantly from the home-prepared items.
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The loveliest remarks on this phenomenon come from the corporate convenience food conveyancers.
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Cooks around the world love a good convenience food .
health
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I discovered they're all switching to health foods , cutting out fat, salt and pork.
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Similasan Eye Drops 3 for computer eye fatigue will be available beginning this month in health food stores and select pharmacies.
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Many people believe that they help emotional and psychological symptoms; they are available from some chemists and health food shops.
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A health food store is a good place to search for the herbs listed above.
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A box of eight sausages costs around £1.95, from food stores and health food shops.
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Available from all good health food stores, Superdrug and Boots Food Centres.
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Maybe it's that the appetizers aren't exactly health food .
hygiene
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The government has already introduced tougher laws on food hygiene and now it hopes the register will help council officers enforce them.
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The initiative aims at further enhancing already high standards of food hygiene in tenanted houses.
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There are 30 courses dedicated to specific safety issues, such as handling portable gas cylinders, food hygiene and accident investigation procedures.
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The kitchen area accords with the latest food hygiene regulations.
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The case came to light at Liverpool magistrates' court when Shaw Bakery was prosecuted for a lapse in food hygiene standards.
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Training is essential and basic food hygiene courses can be completed in six hours.
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A Food Standards Agency to take responsibility for food hygiene and safety.
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We introduced the 1990 Food Safety Act to ensure the highest standards of food hygiene .
industry
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Admittedly, Norton-Taylor castigates the food industry as well as the landowners and the farmers - he spreads his castigation very evenly.
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The food industry Y produces with constant returns to scale.
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It costs forty pounds and is aimed at travellers, people in contact with sufferers and those in the food industry .
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Both dried cream and dried whey are extensively used by the food industries .
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Sterilisers: There is no such material as a steriliser in the context of cleaning in the food industry .
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There is nothing demeaning about cleaning in the food industry .
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One area of manufacturing where we could see some collaboration is the food industry .
intake
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Patients assigned to receive steroids consumed an unrestricted diet and were asked to record their food intake during the first four weeks.
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Satiety was increased with a larger bulk of food intake .
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This need not mean drastically reducing food intake .
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Clearly, a rhythm in food intake might be able to adjust the body clock via several mechanisms.
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In addition, these patients usually reduce their food intake when disease flares up.
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This type of training is very demanding and rest and food intake are most important.
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Use your diary to form a picture of the kind of person you are when it comes to food intake .
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It can be produced in sheep by reducing the food intake of ewes in early pregnancy.
intolerance
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Menopause symptoms are similar to those of food intolerance and may in fact be triggered off by hormone changes.
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More undigested food molecules pass through the gut wall than in healthy individuals, making food intolerance much more likely.
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Signs of food intolerance to look out for include skin rashes and loose watery stools.
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Some of those who are dismissive of food intolerance , see hyperventilation as a widespread cause of vague, multiple symptoms.
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At present, there is no good explanation for the link between candidiasis, food intolerance and chemical sensitivity.
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Not surprisingly, some of these patients are thought to have food intolerance .
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Chapter 2 has touched on food intolerance in the case of dairy produce.
junk
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It's too easy to end up living off junk food .
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Her secret, she said, is all the preservatives in the junk foods she eats.
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This is just my kind of diet - no junk food , plenty of fruit which I love.
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I miss things like potato chips and junk food .
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This sets a bad example to teenagers, many of whom are overweight and eat too much junk food .
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Large-muscle coordination comes from riding bikes and climbing trees, not from watching junk food commercials where other kids play and run.
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Reduce your intake of salt, sugar and junk foods - especially beneficial if you suffer from water retention.
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But to tell the truth, the album makes a pretty good accompaniment for just sitting around and eating junk food .
preparation
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The delegation looked at a range of hotel operations including food preparation , customer care programmes, sales and marketing and budgeting.
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The total time used in food preparation consists of active time and inactive time when attention may be directed elsewhere.
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The other does household tasks such as repair, food preparation , waste disposal and moving around.
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Involve your children in all aspects of food preparation , from shopping to cooking.
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Where grease poses less of a problem, in food preparation areas, for example, choose grease-resistant mats for long service life.
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Following the annual migration of food preparation to the outdoors is the perennial question: How shall these delicacies be washed down?
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Food processors are using the systems for cleaning stainless steel food preparation stations.
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It transforms food preparation from a tedious routine into an exciting event, and is top-rack-dishwasher-safe.
processor
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Place the roe, lemon juice and squeezed bread in a food processor blender.
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Puree sauce in a blender or food processor and strain back into pot.
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A mounted ballistic food processor , maybe I can blend them to death.
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Meanwhile, combine vinegars, mustard and pepper in a food processor and blend until combined.
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Put the mixture into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. 3.
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With food processor running, add the oil in a thin stream until it is thoroughly incorporated.
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When the milk is ready, place it in a food processor or whip it into cream.
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Transfer to a blender or food processor and puree until smooth.
product
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Slim people, like those who are overweight, are lured by modern food products .
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Direct mail order sale of food products by food manufacturers and specialty shops has become big business.
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Prepare a list of six food products that are available as store brands, generic brands, and national brands.
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Cleanliness is essential when carrying a food product like sugar.
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Read the labels on all food products for levels of fat content.
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As future food products become diversified, so will the means for infection.
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Advertising costs are supported by local food retailers and by manufacturers of food products .
production
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Nowhere is this more true than in food production .
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It also privatized agricultural land, giving a huge boost to food production .
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The introduction of cash crops in the 1930s further reduced the amount of land available for food production .
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But despite impressive gains in food output globally, per capita food production remains low in many developing nations.
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To understand government policies concerning food , we need to look at nutritional levels and the quantity and nature of food production .
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In fact, in several countries, food production is at surplus levels, making exportation to neighboring countries possible.
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Today the rate of increase in food production has exceeded the rate of increase in the total world population.
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Human health can be compromised by industrialized food production , and our future regulations will have to change.
shortage
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Also, without sunlight, plants can not photo-synthesize, so there must have been a very considerable food shortage .
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A water flea that is starving in a crowded pond is the victim not of food shortage but of competition.
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During periods of relative food shortage males tend to move less; dispersion evidently reduces competition for resources.
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Spirits around the house picked up for a while in November when our food shortage was suddenly eliminated.
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First, is it the case that hunger and food shortages are the result of population pressure?
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The report notes that a combination of soil degradation and poor rainfall have increased food shortages and poverty.
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Protests over food shortages forced the Government to implement rationing schemes first devised by the Labour and Co-operative movement.
source
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They rely on four food sources , that from garden cultivation, from collecting, from hunting, and from fishing.
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These schemes permit efficient recovery of water and oxygen but leave the problem of a food source unanswered.
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If the dance takes place on a horizontal plane, then this waggled line will point directly at the food source .
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A major food source of squirrels and many finches is totally absent this year.
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The food-finder might instead single out one other nest mate, and then lead it alone back to the food source .
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A second explanation is that antibiotic production is rooted in the plant material that is the food source .
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They match the recruiting party to the size of the food source .
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In winter it's a wildlife haven; even in the harshest weather it affords a rarely failing food source .
stamp
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They had no right to food stamps or unemployment benefits.
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At least 270, 000 legal immigrants would lose food stamps .
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Example: Our food stamp program is designed to improve the diets of low-income families.
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The bill would have made changes in the food stamp program but would have kept it under federal control.
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That new job will mean free rent but fewer food stamps , he said.
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The $ 418 worth of food stamps he got in February probably will be reduced to about $ 120.
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Democrats favor providing for food stamps and Supplemental Security Income.
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The department responsible for food stamps and improving conditions for the rural poor should rightfully be held to the highest human-rights standard.
supply
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Rich food supplies are laid down within its cells and waterproof coats are wrapped round it.
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They encourage corporate and individual responsibility by rewarding thoughtful management of food supply and demand.
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Giant kelp is the sea urchins' chief food supply .
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The other was an agricultural revolution based on chemical fertilizers, irrigation, and improved seed strains that dramatically expanded food supplies .
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A guaranteed food supply will combine with a warner climate to boost their numbers.
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The Mormons sold food supplies to the booming mining communities in the Intermountain West.
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Clearly, in the long term, improving dietary habits and food supply is the most desirable approach.
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Chimps go from small feeding bands to big groups depending on the nature of the food supply .
■ VERB
bring
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The only times Gina brought food in were those when she was entertaining.
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But we also brought food , stones found along the way, wild flowers, and objects from our personal belongings.
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Consumer reliance on processed and ready chilled foods has brought a new food poison to Britain: listeria.
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Mattie said, bringing in the food .
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Filter-feeding animals such as mussels benefit from the movement of the tides, which brings their food to them.
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But he never brought food , which was not only very strange, but rude.
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They had not thought it necessary to bring food .
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It lived in the warehouse, and all the gang brought it food .
buy
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How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal.
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He would retrieve this hidden cache, giving Jinju four hundred to buy food and baby clothes.
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A mistress was given money to buy food .
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You have to go out and buy large quantities of food .
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Also, buying canned or frozen food rather than fresh food cuts down our vitamin intake by as much as 25-30 percent.
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Soo ran out of the shop to buy food .
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I could then buy food and give Mom the change, so ensuring we ate adequately.
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When they did, they learned that they were good at buying food and merchandising it in their stores.
clothe
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They include objects of precious metal. like the jewelry and famous gold mask, and food and clothing .
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Rent, food , furniture, clothes ...
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The prisoners who escaped invariably turned up at their homes, where they were given accommodation, food and clothing .
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We waited for food , clothing , medication.
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An estimated 20m households depend on income from coffee to pay for food , clothing and education.
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We delivered hot food , clothing , mail, and ammunition to them every day.
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There is urgent need there for food and clothing .
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Red Cross volunteers are providing food , clothing and temporary shelter to the residents.
cook
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Meanwhile, the family owning the house cooked food and prepared drinks for all the people working.
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There are also possible shortages of the natural gas used to cook food and heat homes and businesses.
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The fire-fighter on mess duty will have collected money from his mates, bought the food and cooked it.
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The sausage: The sausage cooked the food .
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Use no salt when cooking any food at all.
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The bird collected wood, the mouse made the fire and set the table, and the sausage cooked the food .
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The wood-stoves that cook the food are extremely inefficient.
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I can cook my own food .
drink
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No food , nothing to drink .
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I may not stop for food or drink .
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In the restaurant business, it is simply the price of admission to offer good food and drink in a good location.
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He didn't eat much food but he drank more rum than usual.
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The wealthy came early, joined the host in the dining room for the best food and drink .
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He ate food concentrate and drank stale metallic water.
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As a welcome, relatives and friends leave out food and drink on the altar.
eat
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Thereafter the reaction occurs obligingly every time they eat the food - but the response is a psychogenic one.
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You eat the food they serve here?
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This sets a bad example to teenagers, many of whom are overweight and eat too much junk food .
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Some of these attributes do and some do not greatly affect the eating satisfaction of foods .
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Susceptible people experience flushing and feel unwell when they eat foods containing these compounds.
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But like Taller or Stillman, Ornish recommends that dieters stop eating an entire food group.
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When I first left home at 17, I was a lot bigger because I used to eat loads of junk food .
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It was clear after a period of eating the local food that there was no going back.
freeze
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To freeze food , a blast freezer should be employed.
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As the marine hobby blossomed the demand for good frozen food designed for marine fishes and invertebrates increased tremendously.
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We were freezing and had no food , so we tried to make our way down.
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The bakery, frozen foods and other departments also will be expanded.
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Whether fed on flake, frozen or live food , this fish seems to thrive.
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These are meat-like patties found in the frozen food counter of the supermarket.
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Vlasic reported grocery product sales of Dollars 287m last year, compared with Dollars 480m in sales from frozen foods .
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Illiterates can not read instructions on a pack of frozen food .
keep
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Long passages or stairs between the two make for difficulties in keeping food hot and clearing tables.
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Practice these simple rules: Keep cold food cold.
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Pete and Chrissie's baby couldn't keep its food down.
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Handle it as little as possible. Keep hot food hot.
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For example, the specialist Sun Frost range keeps food fresh for weeks rather than days if a power cut occurs.
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The desire to talk was like some fantastic hunger; they were my torturers, keeping the food just beyond reach.
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Yet the workers who tend the machine and keep open its food supplies must also eat.
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We eat too much, diet too much, yet still we advocate keeping food as cheap as possible.
prepare
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Sefa-Dedeh is now developing a simple process to prepare a high protein food from cereals and legumes.
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Auster retreated to the kitchen to prepare the food .
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We all worked extremely hard in the next few days, cleaning all the rooms and preparing the food .
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I noticed that to our right there was a large balcony equipped with facilities for preparing and serving food .
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You also need to be aware of certain precautions that should be taken in the handling, preparing and storing of food .
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In the mill it; has prepared the brothers' food and its duty is now to serve in making their clothing.
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She had concentrated on keeping him warm and preparing the food he liked best.
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Supermarkets, specialty food shops, bakeries and caterers are sources of quality prepared foods.
produce
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As a writer, your sovereign responsibility is to produce real food by making truthful representations.
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There are many more ways the ornamental gardener can satisfy a latent urge to produce food .
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If there are problems of malnutrition and hunger, these can be tackled at source by attempts to produce more food .
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The years of central planning had already produced food shortages in a country where livestock outnumber people by about 12 to one.
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The nuts they produce are a wonderful food for humans and squirrels alike.
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We produced more food , decade after decade, and saw the civilized nations becoming increasingly materialistic.
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The rural community has produced more food than ever before, although not yet enough.
provide
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They stopped providing the subsidized food which had made it possible to survive.
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It provides food , shelter and case management for more than 70 families at one time.
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A foreign charity provides food for the animals, and a veterinarian is called when one falls ill.
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The men provide most of the food , so they dominate.
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These provide food for nearly two-thirds of the world's population.
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I had been providing food to keep this aggregation here.
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When the war ended, the most pressing need was to provide food and fuel.
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Coupons are provided both by local food retailers and by food processing companies.
serve
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Either way it leaves both hands free to turn or serve the food .
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The average hospital serves food that is neither appetizing nor nutritious.
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Rachaela served the food and they ate it.
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I noticed that to our right there was a large balcony equipped with facilities for preparing and serving food .
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Voice over Landlords say they're increasingly serving more food than drink, especially in country pubs.
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Another volunteer was Riccardo, thirty-five years old, whom I found helping to serve the food .
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Maybe it should drop the bratwurst and strudel and serve junk food .
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They will hand out the lunches, serve food in the suites and staff food stations in the stadium.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beer/song/food etc fest
food/butter etc mountain
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Have you contributed a great deal this year to the butter mountain ?
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The whole point of those reforms was to get rid of the food mountains .
the food chain
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Pollution is having a long-term impact on the food chain in the bay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A health food store is a good place to look for herbs.
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Buddy won't eat the new dog food I bought.
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Do you like spicy food ?
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I'd never tried Indian food before.
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I've never had Indonesian food -- what's it like?
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Juntao refused food as a protest against prison conditions.
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Make sure you leave the cat plenty of food and water before you go.
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New-born birds stay in their nest while their mother goes out in search of food .
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North Korea faces severe food shortages.
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The food 's great and it's not that expensive.
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The church program provides food and clothing for the needy.
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The doctor told him not to eat fatty foods.
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the world's largest fast food restaurant chain
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They didn't even have enough money to buy food .
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To lose weight, cut down on sweet and fatty foods.
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You can quite easily make your own baby food at home.
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You shouldn't eat all that junk food , it's bad for you.
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And they buy food and clothes and pay rent.
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Any conversation, even if it was only about food , was better than this stalemate.
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He jumps back, but he already has a mouthful of food .
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I have to cut up his food .
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She never spoke to anyone but would nod at Toussaint, who brought her shares of their meager food .
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The virus is spread through contact with contaminated food and water.