Sea food from India beginning to cook (6)
I believe the answer is:
baltic
'sea' is the definition.
(I know that Baltic is a sea)
'food from india beginning to cook' is the wordplay.
'food' becomes 'balt' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'from' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'beginning to' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'cook' is 'c'.
'balt'+'i'+'c'='BALTIC'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for baltic that I've seen before include "Cab lit up the sea" , "Near land-locked sea of Scandinavia" , "Near-landlocked sea of N Europe" , "Nearly land-locked sea of Scandinavia" , "Almost land-locked sea of Scandinavia" .)