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Cooking tail, Scot had food from a particular country (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

italianate

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'a particular country' is the definition.
The definition suggests an adjective which matches the answer.

'cooking tail scot had food' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates an anagram (letters cooked up into a new form).
'scot' becomes 'ian' (Scottish given name).
'had food' becomes 'ate' (to eat is to have some food).
'tail' anagrammed gives 'ital'.
'ital'+'ian'+'ate'='ITALIANATE'

'from' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for italianate that I've seen before include "such as pizza or spaghetti?" , "of national character" , "Venetian style?" , "In a style like that of a south European country" , "Continental style" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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