So, your character has finally completed all of Rokk’s daily cooking quests in Outland, and you are ready to move on to bigger and better things. ‘But what?’ you may ask. Just as there were cooking dailies in the Outland, there are cooking dailies for your character in Northrend as well.
The NPCs that give this quest are Katherine Lee for the Alliance, found in the Inn on the southwest side of Dalaran, and Awilo Lon’gomba for the Horde, who is found in the Inn on the northeast side of Dalaran. The requirements in order to see the quest is a character level of 65 and a cooking level of 350 or above. Only one of the five daily quests will be offered each day, and completing it will count toward your 25 daily quest limit.
When you complete the daily quest, you will receive a Dalaran cooking award or two, and a Small Spice Bag. The Dalaran Cooking Awards can be used to purchase Northern Spices, a Chef’s Hat (which will decrease time required to cook recipes in patch 3.2), or various recipes from an NPC in the same room as the quest giver. The recipes available are the only way to progress from a cooking skill of 425 to 450.
The Small Spice Bag can contain a number of different rewards. The most common is a few Northern Spices, which are required to make the recipes mentioned above. Occasionally, you will receive additional rewards. The spice Bag has been known to contain an additional Dalaran Cooking award on occasion, or possibly a new recipe, like that for Delicious Chocolate Cake. You may also get Old Spices (applies a buff to yourself or another player that reads ‘You smell great!”) or Baby Spices (which make the target of the spices smaller for a short amount of time).
In preparation for doing these quests, you will need a few things. First and foremost, you will need the recipes for Northern Stew and Rhino Dogs. The recipe for Northern Stew is a quest reward of ‘Northern Cooking,’ which is given by the cooking trainers in Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra. Rhino dogs can be trained from any Northrend cooking trainer at a Cooking skill of 350.
You will also need Meats to complete most of the cooking dailies. The most important is a stockpile of Chilled Meat. This can be found on most of the beasts roaming Northrend. You will not want to go out and get more each day, though, so I really recommend keeping a good few stacks either on your person or in your bank for easy access. Also, for one of the quests, you will need to make Rhino Dogs. Because of this, you may also want to keep a stack of Rhino Meat handy so that you don’t have to go traipsing to Sholazar Basin or the Borean Tundra every time this quest rolls around.
If you have all of this, the only other materials you will need will be gathered around Dalaran, and cannot be stockpiled, unfortunately. But if you read the quest text, it should be apparent what you need and completing the quest should be… well… a piece of cake!