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Cairo man cooked food (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

macaroni

'food' is the definition.
(macaroni is a kind of food)

'cairo man cooked' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'cairo'+'man'='cairoman'
'cairoman' with letters rearranged gives 'MACARONI'.

(Other definitions for macaroni that I've seen before include "finishes off burlesque verse" , "Short narrow tubes of pasta" , "Tubular pasta" , "Thin tubes of pasta" , "sort of pasta" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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