Popular with vegetarians, cooks spurn it

I believe the answer is:

turnips

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'popular with vegetarians' is the definition.
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'cooks spurn it' is the wordplay.
'cooks' indicates anagramming the letters.
'spurn'+'it'='spurnit'
'spurnit' is an anagram of 'TURNIPS'.

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(Other definitions for turnips that I've seen before include "Root vegetables" , "Neeps" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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