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Email to cook books table (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aliment

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'table' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'email to cook books' is the wordplay.
'to cook' is an anagram indicator.
'books' becomes 'nt' (New Testament**).
'email' with letters rearranged gives 'alime'.
'alime'+'nt'='ALIMENT'

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(Other definitions for aliment that I've seen before include "Nourishment" , "Something which nourishes - meal tin (anag)" , "Sustenance" , "Old word for food" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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