about & ...

I'd like to translate "Food & Drink" into "FoodDrink". 

I use this:   translate('Food & Drink',  '&',  '' );

Apparently, an error occurs with the code above because of the '&'. Can anyone 
tell how to handle the '&' here?  

Thanks in advance.

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