Cook ignorant about current food restrictions? (9)
I believe the answer is:
rationing
'cook ignorant about current food restrictions?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'cook ignorant about current' is the wordplay.
'cook' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'ignorant' with letters rearranged gives 'rationng'.
'rationng' placed around 'i' is 'RATIONING'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rationing that I've seen before include "Limiting (a supply)" , "Shortages lead to" , "process that should be fair for everybody" , "Wartime activity" .)