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Dish is no meal for cooking (8)

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I believe the answer is:

semolina

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'cooking' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'dish is no meal' is the wordplay.
'dish' is an anagram indicator (dish can informally mean to destroy).
'is'+'no'+'meal'='isnomeal'
'isnomeal' anagrammed gives 'SEMOLINA'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for semolina that I've seen before include "dessert" , "Wheat used for milk puddings" , "Wheat product used in pasta" , "One's mail (anag.)" , "As oilmen eat this pudding" .)

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