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This culinary centre caters fried chicken treats (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

kitchen

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'this culinary' is the definition.

'centre caters fried chicken treats' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'chicken' could be 'hen' (hen is a kind of chicken) and 'hen' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for kitchen that I've seen before include "Room with proverbial heat" , "where food is a concern" , "Cook's place" , "Room for food" , "Proverbial place of uncomfortable heat" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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