Grand Master Cooking is learned from a [Cooking Trainer]. Once you have learned it, you can continue leveling up.

To continue cooking beyond 375, you must have The Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Skill Lvl Details
350 to 375

Once you get to 350 and have Grand Master Cooking, you can pick up 12+ recipes from the [Cooking Trainers] you find when you first get to [Northrend]. You should also pick up [Northern Stew] as a reward from the [Northern Cooking] quest - and it's well worth it.

The recipes below are what we've found to be the easiest & quickest to farm ingredients for. If you're buying your ingredients from the Auction House, just go with whatever you fancy.

Note: Most of the higher level recipes (350+) start out at [Yellow] and go [Green] rather quickly - so you'll often need to cook more than 1 item per point to skill-up.

#   Recipe Ingredients
20 X Northern Stew  [Northern Stew]

- 20 [Chilled Meat]

----- AND -----

15 X Rhino Dogs  [Rhino Dogs]

- 15 [Rhino Meat]

----- OR -----
15 X Shoveltusk Steak  [Shoveltusk Steak]

- 15 [Shoveltusk Flank]

Farming

- [Rhino Meat] is most plentiful in [Borean Tundra]
- [Shoveltusk Flank] can be farmed in [Howling Fjord]
- [Chilled Meat] drops all over the place. If you're not getting any, you're not killing animals.

Note: You can make any combination of the 3 recipes above to go from 350-365. [Northern Stew] is recommended because it's easy to find [Chilled Meat], however it goes [Green] at 365.

375 to 400
#   Recipe Ingredients
35 X Great Feast [Great Feast]

- 35 [Chunk o' Mammoth]
- 35 [Shoveltusk Flank]
- 35 [Worm Meat]
- 70 [Chilled Meat]

Farming

- [Chunk o' Mammoth] is easiest in [Borean Tundra]
- [Worm Meat] is easiest in [Storm Peaks] or [Dragonblight]
- [Shoveltusk Flank] and [Chilled Meat] are listed above.

Note: You can also make [Kungaloosh] to go from 375-387. The ingredients are all purchased from vendors - The cost to make 5 (minimum purchase) is 3Gold 30Silver.

400 to 425

 

From this point on, you'll be buying your recipes with [Dalaran Cooking Awards] in [Dalaran]. They are earned by completing Dalaran daily cooking quests.

Pick the recipes that best suite your Raiding, Questing or PvP needs - since all of them are [Buff] foods.

You will need at least 40 of whichever recipe you choose!
(Our favorites were [Mega Mammoth Meal] and [Mighty Rhino Dogs] because they're easy to farm)

 

425 to 450

Down the Home Stretch (for now...)

30 X Gigantic Feast  [Gigantic Feast]

- 60 [Deep Sea Monsterbelly]
- 60 [Chunk o' Mammoth]
- 60 [Rockfin Grouper]
- 30 [Northern Spices]

----- OR -----
30 X Small Feast  [Small Feast]

- 60 [Nettlefish]
- 60 [Rhino Meat]
- 60 [Glacial Salmon]
- 30 [Northern Spices]

At 450, go to a trainer and learn [Illustrious Grand Master Cooking]