Dalaran Cooking Dailies

Cooking... it's that 7 letter word people hate leveling. In BC, there were a few reasons to level cooking- the main one being to have a readily available supply of food buffs without paying the high AH prices. There were also the daily quests that you could complete in hopes of gaining one of the recipes that could only be obtained this way.

With this expansion, cooking takes on a whole new level. Instead of waiting for random recipes when you complete the quest, Blizz has implemented a new system of "cooking awards" that you gain by completing the daily cooking quest. These awards can be used to purchase Northrend recipes or Northrend spices.This is the only way that you can purchase Northrend spices. Naturally the awards are BoP. This means you have to have a high enough cooking to do these quests. There are five cooking quests, which one get daily is random. You can pick up the daily cooking quests from Katherine Lee in A Hero's Welcome (the other inn in Dalaran close to Violet Hold).

Mats for these quests vary. The easiest material to obtain is the chilled meat. This can be obtained by killing any Northrend animal. Rhino meat for the rhino dogs drops from any rhino type creature. You can find them in the Borean Tundrea northwest of starting area. Amazingly enough, the calves seem to drop the meat the best, but this is by far the best area to farm. The rhinos are grouped in 4 and 5 packs. They die fairly easy, and the greys that drop vendor nicely.

Cheese for Glowergold
Ranid Glowergold in the Leatherworkers shop in Dalaran has had a sudden craving for wine and cheese.Collect cheese which is on the shelf at "One More Glass" in central Dalaran and half full wine glasses found on tables all over the city. Pour the wine together into a bottle and serve it with the cheese to Ranid.

This quest is nice because you do not need any meat and everything is located in Dalaran. The wine glasses can be found in any inn (check the bedrooms as well) and the One More Glass shop. The cheese is usually on the table on the right when you enter the One More Glass shop.

Convention at the Legerdemain
Arille Azuregaze at the Legerdemain Lounge has a convention coming in and needs a feast pronto!You need to provide 12 Northern Stew and a Jug of Wine from the cheese shop "One More Glass" in central Dalaran. The owner of the cheese shop, owes me the wine and you should find it somewhere around the shop.

This quest is one of the most mat intensive quests you can get. It takes 12 chilled meats to complete this quest. You have to make Northern Stew, which is a trained cooking recipe. The jug of wine is located upstairs in the One More Glass shop.

Infused Mushroom Meatloaf
We have an important order that needs to go out! Orton Bennet in Curiosities & Moore needs a mushroom meatloaf.Get 4 Infused Mushrooms that are found in the Dalaran sewers and 2 Chilled Meats and cook them in the pot at any fire and deliver it to Orton.

This quest requires 2 chilled meats and a trip to the sewer to get the mushrooms. They randomly spawn around the sewers, especially look in the corners.

Mustard Dogs!
Archmage Pentarus likes to watch the occasional game of battle ball and is preparing to go, but needs food for the trip.You need to fill his picnic basket with 4 rhino dogs that you cook and then 4 wild mustard that are found in grassy areas of the city.Bring him his picnic basket so he can be ready to go see the big game.

For this quest, you need four pieces of rhino meat to make rhino dogs. The rhino dog recipe is trained. Once you have the rhino dogs, you need to run around the city to all the grassy areas, and look for sparklies =) The yellow plants should be shimmering. Behind the inn where you get the quest is a beer garden where some spawn. Any of the grassy areas can contain these mustard plants. Also, close to the flight path, in that round area is a great spawn point for at least two plants, and they do respawn quickly. The NPC to turn in the basket is right here as well.

Sewer Stew
Ajay Green the innkeeper in the Dalaran sewers needs a vegetable stew for his customers as they are running low on food down there.Collect 4 Crystalsong Carrots from the Crystalsong Forest and cook them together with 4 Chilled Meat.You can get to the Crystalsong Forest from the portal chamber in the eastern corner of Runeweaver Square.Once the vegetable stew is ready, bring it to Ajay.

Once again, you need four chilled meats. If you take the portal down to the Crystalsong Forest and head east right past the river, and look for the carrots. I linked a map but if you head east from the Violet Stand, you should run into them. This quest turns in at the innkeeper in the Sewer.


HINTS:

Sewer Stew and Infused Mushroom Meatloaf both need to be "combined" by a cooking fire or stove/oven. I'm usually pretty cheap about this, and hit one of the inns- since both above surface inns have cooking ovens/fires. The rhino dogs and northern stew components need to be cooked as well. Once those items are cooked, you need to click on the basket or platter to combine into the quest item.

Once you have completed all five daily cooking quests, you earn the achievement Our Daily Bread. Completing this achievement is also a prerequisite for Hail to the Chef, which will earn you the title Chef.