troffer

American  

[trof-er, traw-fer] / ˈtrɒf ər, ˈtrɔ fər /

noun

1. a trough-shaped reflector holding one or more fluorescent lamps.

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Etymology

Origin of troffer

1940–45; troff (variant of trough ) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

For Troffer — whose half-Japanese mother didn’t cook Japanese food often but always had nori and a pot of rice at the ready — there is no distance between East and West.

From New York Times

In Brooklyn, Patch Troffer, an American chef of Japanese descent who last year took over the kitchen at the farm-to-table institution Marlow & Sons, supplants wasabi with horseradish root grown in upstate New York.

From New York Times

“It’s the food of the displaced and the diaspora,” Troffer says.

From New York Times

Troffer modeled his curry after the best-selling S&B brand but with a lashing of heat; during the colder months, it’s served at Marlow as it often appears in Japan, with pork katsu, a cutlet gilded in panko.

From New York Times

The décor remains the same, but the menu, from Patch Troffer, who moved from the Bay Area and whose grandmother is Japanese, now features what he calls “Japanese-American farm food.”

From The New Yorker