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Where unofficial advisers go to find food? (7,7)

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I believe the answer is:

kitchen cabinet

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'where unofficial advisers' is the definition.
'kitchen cabinet' can be an answer for 'advisers' (I have seen 'unofficial advisers' mean 'kitchen cabinet' so perhaps 'advisers' could also mean 'kitchen cabinet'). I am unsure of the 'where unofficial' bit.

'to find food?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'food?' could be 'hen' (hen is a kind of food) and 'hen' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'go' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for kitchen cabinet that I've seen before include "Unofficial advisory group" , "full of old crocks?" , "unofficial advisers" , "There could be a place for 15 [KNIVES]" , "Harold Wilson's advisers?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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