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Tips for cooking in American resort? Serve up something sweet (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

asparagus

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'tips for cooking in' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'american resort? serve up something sweet' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'resort?' becomes 'spa' (spa is a kind of resort).
'serve up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'something sweet' becomes 'sugar'.
'sugar' back-to-front is 'ragus'.
'a'+'spa'+'ragus'='ASPARAGUS'

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(Other definitions for asparagus that I've seen before include "Plant whose young shoots are cooked as expensive vegeable" , "The Theatre Cat (T. S. Eliot); an edible plant" , "Spears or shoots" , "Speared vegetable" , "Green shoots, cooked and eaten as a vegetable" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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