Ate modern cooking in place of worship (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
notre dame
'place of worship' is the definition.
'notre dame' can be an answer for 'place' (I have seen 'sacred place' mean 'notre dame' so perhaps 'place' could also mean 'notre dame'). I am unsure of the 'of worship' bit.
'ate modern cooking' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates an anagram (letters cooked up into a new form).
'ate'+'modern'='atemodern'
'atemodern' anagrammed gives 'NOTRE-DAME'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for notre dame that I've seen before include "Victor Hugo wrote 'The Hunchback of . . . . . . . . .'" , "building by the Seine" , "Parisian cathedral" , "...in another [CATHEDRAL]" , "Great cathedral of Paris" .)