Possible Clues:

• A ruddy vegetable meal for the artist
• Red enough for an Academician to have on a plate
• Run to get a plate for salad item
• Bit of food in kitchen vessel given to artist
• Salad add-in
• Bulb often eaten raw
• A ruddy plate for the artist?
• Red root used in salads
• Salad ingredient right with one kind of food
• Rovers' header a beauty — eat that!