UPDATED 4/29 with the new cooking dailies added with Patch 4.1
Alliance Cooking Dailies in Darnassus
- Back to Basics. Make rice flour by pounding the contents of 6 Rice Baskets.
- Remembering the Ancestors. Collect the Blessed Rice Cakes from the Temple of the Moon.
- Ribs for the Sentinels. Use the Uncooked Ribs near a stove or campfire to cook them and then use them to feed 5 Darnassus Sentinels.
- Spice Bread Aplenty. Make or obtain 10 pieces of Spice Bread.
- The Secret to Perfect Kimchi. Find 8 Buried Kimchi Jars in Darnassus.
Alliance Cooking Dailies in Ironforge
Quests come from Daryl Riknussun.
- Can't Get Enough Spice Bread. Make or obtain 10 slices of Spice Bread.
- A Fowl Shortage. Collect 6 Dun Morogh Chickens near the entrance to Ironforge.
- I Need to Cask a Favor. Pick up the Cask of Drugan's IPA outside the brewery in Kharanos and run it back to Ironforge.
- Keepin' the Haggis Flowin'. Obtain a Bag o' Sheep Innards, 5 packets of Mild Spices, and 4 Sacks of Oatmeal.
- A Round for the Guards. Distribute the Ironforge Rations to 6 Ironforge Guards.
Horde Cooking Dailies in The Undercity
Quests come from Eunice Burch.
- Escargot a Go-Go. Collect 8 Brightwater Snails from Brightwater Lake.
- Fungus Among Us. Obtain 12 Sewer Caps from Undercity's Northwest sewer line.
- Lily, Oh Lily. Obtain 10 Stillwater Lillies from Stillwater Pond.
- Roach Coach. Obtain 20 Plump Cockroaches. You'll find traps all over the Undercity.
- Would You Like Some Flies With That? Obtain 25 Bloated Flies from the "meat" near the Meat Wagons.
Horde Cooking Dailies in Thunder Bluff
Quests come from Aska Mistrunner.
- Corn Mash. Pound 6 bowls of corn kernels into cornmeal.
- "Magic" Mushrooms. Gather 6 "Magic" Mushrooms from the Pools of Vision.
- Mulgore Spice Bread. Use Mulgore Spices with Spice Bread to create 5 Fresh Mulgore Spice Bread, or obtain them from someone else.
- Perfectly Picked Portions. Obtain four "perfect portions" from merchants stalls around Thunder Bluff. You will obtain one each of Succulent Sweet Potatoes, Savory Spices, Fresh-Caught Fish, and Fresh-Hunted Fowl from Thunder Bluff merchant stalls.
- Pining for Nuts. Obtain 30 Pine Nuts by toasting Mulgore Pine Cones.
Original Post
I've slowly but surely started working on my Cataclysm cooking achievements and cooking quests, thanks to all being activated with patch 4.0.3a. I've already achieved the Let's Do Lunch achievement on my Alliance characters after only a week of dailies.
Achievements: Alliance
- Let's Do Lunch: Complete each of the Stormwind cooking dailies listed below.
- The Cataclysmic Gourmet: Cook 15 then 30 of the new recipes.
- Iron Chef: Learn 200 cooking recipes.
Achievements: Horde
- Let's Do Lunch: Complete each of the Orgrimmar cooking dailies listed below.
- The Cataclysmic Gourmet: Cook 15 then 30 of the new recipes.
- Iron Chef: Learn 200 cooking recipes.
Alliance Cooking Dailies in Stormwind
- A Fisherman's Feast. Obtain 5 gigantic catfish, via fishing or stealing barrels of fish from beleagured Stormwind fishermen.
- Orphans Like Cookies Too. Steal bags of confectioners' Sugar (or buy them from NPCs in the Inns around SW).
- The King's Cider. Obtain 12 juicy apples that have fallen from the trees around Stormwind. Herbalists have a leg up on this as the locations of fallen apples will show on your mini map like herb nodes do.
- Feeling Crabby? Collect 10 canal crabs. You'll want to get a warlock's underwater breathing buff or be a druid in seal form to swiftly swim through the canals in search of the crabs.
- Penny's Pumpkin Pancakes. Obtain 6 Stormwind Pumpkins. Gathered from a pumpkin patch North of Stormwind. The hardest part of this quest is finding the tiny pathway out to the pumpkin patch from the far reaches of the Dwarven District.
Horde Cooking Dailies in Orgirmmar
- Careful, This Fruit Bites Back. Obtain 8 pieces of prickly fruit from Orgrimmar cactus. Herbalists have a leg up on this as the locations of the cactus fruit will show on your mini map like herb nodes do.
- Even Thieves Get Hungry. Recover 3 horde infantry rations.
- Stealing From Our Own. Retrieve 6 barrels of Darkspear rice.
- Everything is Better With Bacon. Kill swine outside the main entrance gates of Orgrimmar and turn in 6 swine bellies.
- Crawfish Creole. Catch 10 muddy crawfish.
So far of these, all are pretty fast and easy to complete other than Feeling Crabby, which is likely to flare tempers the same way the Dalaran mushrooms did in the early days of WotLK. 3 completed quests earns you enough Chef's Award tokens to purchase a recipe. Or 2 tokens can be turned in for a Crate of Tasty Meat that can be used to create some of the new recipes.
There are 11 recipes that may be learned with 450 cooking skill; 3 with 475 cooking skill; 11 with 500 cooking skill; 1 with 505 cooking skill; and 2 learned with 525 cooking skill. NOTE: the two 525 recipes will require a spend of 5 tokens instead of the 3 needed for the lower level recipes. Alliance recipes are purchased from Bario Matalli, while Horde recipes are purchased from Shazdar.
Get the salted eye recipe, then buy the crate of tasty meats. One of the drops is serpent eye, which will allow you to cook a cata recipe usable by level 80s and better than any 80 recipe out there.