In Paris you accepted a chef’s cooking awards (10)
I believe the answer is:
vouchsafes
'awards' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with ownership as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'in paris you accepted a chef's cooking' is the wordplay.
'in paris you' becomes 'vous' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'accepted' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cooking' indicates an anagram (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'a'+'chefs'='achefs'
'achefs' is an anagram of 'chsafe'.
'vous' enclosing 'chsafe' is 'VOUCHSAFES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for vouchsafes that I've seen is " Bestows".)