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Comment by 15038

Level 225 to 300 Cooking skill quest.
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=6610

Comment by 47762

Just head straight east from the dock, last hut next to the mountain, top floor! =)

Comment by Brmonkey

The screenshot for this is wrong, it's of Old Man Heming who sills the expert fishing book. How do you rate it down or get it removed?

Comment by kaldoreii

I highly suggest you buy this along with:

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=16083

Sometimes people sell this book on the AH too.

Comment by 310260

Buy it for one gold, sell it for 5-10 in the auction house. People are lazy enough to pay for something they know they can get cheaper sometimes.

Comment by 291212

Now this book i think do not exist, u can learn expert cook from normal cooking trainer in any city :) (Patch 3.1.0)

Comment by 291212

Same First Aid :) its sadly a bit ;p

Comment by MaxWilder

Why make all these skill upgrade changes? They should just make every new character start at 60 and get it over with...

Comment by 16027

For anyone who is planning on visiting Wulan/Shandrina to buy an expert cookbook, don't :) It has been removed via patch and you now train the expert skill from you local trainer :) Happy cooking!

Comment by Ketho

If u stocked up Expert Cookbook and still selling it on AH:
Cooking(Expert) trainer price = 95s(Friendly) to 80s(Exalted)

Comment by Guanyin

Cooking is the only profession that has no level requirement at all, I have a level 1 grandmaster cook.

Comment by 480001

hey update on the cooking
the expert cook book is not soled in desolace any more i found the skill at the argent tournament master

Comment by Anyu

Please note that from patch 3.1.0, you don't need to buy this book anymore. Books are not needed anymore, no restrictions on levels either.

However in TBC, if you are also doing the quest Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme (fishing @ 225), then good news: your Sar'theris Striker is near you! :)
(Horde players only need to walk down the beach)

Comment by dabias

It's a cookbook!

If you don't understand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man

Comment by Thottbot

Can also be bought from Wulan in Desolace

Comment by Thottbot

The price in Ashenvale is 1 Gold, too!

Comment by Thottbot

The price in Ashenvale is 90s if you have "Honored" reputation with Darnassus.

Comment by Thottbot

Alliance. talk to Shandrina at Silverwind refuge by mystral Lake. this is southwest of astranaar in Ashvale. Honored in darnasus cost is 90 silver

Comment by Thottbot

How can I get my cooking over 225 skill level ?

Comment by Thottbot

Well all you need to have is Cooking (125) and the exact loc is (49,67)

Comment by Thottbot

I finally found him at Shadowprey, upstairs @25.70

Comment by Thottbot

You go to Ashenvale, to a lake called Mystral Lake. On the north end of the lake is a house. The vendor selling the book is standing to the right when you go in the entrance. Her name is Shandrina, and she is a Trade Goods Vendor.The cost of the book is 1 gold.

Comment by Thottbot

To get the Expert Cookbook to get lvl 225 for cooking you must go to Desolace to Shadowprey Village on the coast at loc 26,70. Wulan is on the 3rd floor of a 3 level treehouse. Price is 1 gold. Can be bought at Auction House for a little more...depends on whether you can afford that...considering its not to bad to go through Auction House if you havent been out to Desolace as of yet.

Comment by Thottbot

So, let's compare: as Alliance, you can buy and use the Expert Cooking book at L20, in an area that is pretty easy to reach for L20 characters. As Horde, however, you have to find a way to get your L20 character to a town that is accessible overland only after first passing through the Charred Vale (heaps of L25-30 mobs and no safe roadway), followed by a long hike through an area where L33-L38 mobs cross the road constantly, and aggro on anything that even *smells* like it's below L30. Basically, if an L20 Hordie wants this book, it's either AH, twink, or have a friend buy a copy for you - unless you're really into corpse runs. About your best odds of success are with a Shaman, using Ghost Wolf, and praying that you can dodge as you run.

Comment by Thottbot

49, 67 in Ashenvale

Comment by Thottbot

Has anyone tried swiming from Ashenvale down to Desolace? I dont think STm has water access. I remember at 13 I swam up from Grom'Gol to Westfall without a hitch to get a face mask. I will try this and post.

Comment by Thottbot

It is true, it is entirely possible to swim to Shadowprey village as a 20+ from Ashenvale. I did this as a level 23 Hunter, and did it without ever coming into combat.

First, get to Zoram'gar Outpost. Look around for directions on how to do this if you don't know. From there, swim South around Stonetalon Mountains. This trip, without swim speed or forms of any kind will take roughly 1/2 an hour.

Hug the shore all the way around, avoiding fatigue. There are a few small points where you can jump on land and run a short distance to save time. Aspect of the Cheetah helped with this. Low land begins periodically when the shore starts looking green.

When you first "discover" Sartheris Strand, hit the shore, take off all gear, dismiss pet (Hunter or Warlock only, obviously) as they won't be any help to you and might draw more aggro. Hunters can hit "Track Humanoid" at this point and it will be a great help.

Now, follow the edge of the shelf right at the fatigue limit the entire way down the coast. I mean this, right at the edge. This means you'll detour way out around an island covered in ? Naga. At one point they will appear to be 30-ish feet away. Stay as far back as possible. Once South of the island continue to hug the shelf all the way down to Shadowprey Village, which will be nearly perpendicular to you at the point when you want to swim inland to the shore right at the village.

Stay high on the water and zoom straight in, over the crab guys on the bottom. They are fairly deep and may not aggro a level 20, certainly didn't a level 23 and I swam right over them. At level 20 you could probably aggro them and still hit shore before you died. Put all your gear on again and you are done.

Once there, get the FP, the book, Recipe: Mithril Head Trout and Recipe: Rockscale Cod, which are easy to fish right off the dock in Shadowprey, although they require Cooking 175 to cook and level 25 to eat.

Do this because nobody needs to profit from you in AH for something you can get yourself, but by all means buy an extra copy while you're there to pay for your time, they go for far more than 1g is most AH's. ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

Took me forever to find: 50,67

I was looking in Silverwing Outpost and not Refuge.

It's between Silverwing Outpost and Astranaar, just south of the road

Comment by Allakhazam

The first thing I do cooking (cuz I'm lazy) is from the cooking supplier buy a bunch of flour and mild spices (real cheap) and level to 40-50 just like that by making spice bread.

Comment by Allakhazam

Yep It's in the middle lower part of the map. Right after The Village. Got it today. 225 Cooking max.

Comment by Allakhazam

They aren't too friendly to trolls in those parts... any idea where I could get my hands on this book?

Comment by Allakhazam

Horde folks can find this book in Shadowspray village, which is on the coast of Desolace. Its kind of a scary walk across Desolace to get there, so be careful! There are lots of lvl 25+ meanies to bite you. I saw some lvl 30 and up mobs as well.

Comment by Allakhazam

its been a while since I leveled a toon's cooking, but I flew out to shadowprey to buy it... and the vendor didn't have it. I have a suspicion that you can just train it now at any cooking trainer :\

and ya.... not sure which patch it was changed in, but I can learn to train expert and artisan cooking a the org trainer, so that means the cooking quest at 225 is prolly gone too :( oh well, now I know... guess the site needs to update the trainer's page. as far as I know the outland one is still a book, but I don't have a toon sitting out there to verify that right now.

Comment by Allakhazam

225 to 300 for cooking wut do i need to do ?

Comment by Allakhazam

The cheapest and relatively fastest way to get your cooking up to 150 is to get fishing as well.

from 1-50 farm boar meat around Orgrimmar 50-60 should take you to 50 cooking. From there pick up fishing (be sure to buy the Longjaw Mudsnapper and Bristlewhisker Catfish recipes and about 4 baubles). Either get it to about 20-30 in Og or just godirectlty to Crossroads and fish in Lushwater Oasis. I recommend the little strip of land between the two pools for safe fishing, or the brave/strong can venture into Wailing Caverns and fish from the rock in the middle of the pool before the instance portal (also a safe spot once you can reach it). And just fish till you have 75 fishing (an Intelect buff of any kind helps this along faster). Once fishing hits 75 go learn the next level and return to Lushwater/WC to fish until 150. Keep all the Longjaw Mudsnappers and Bristlewhisker Catfish for later. You should alternately catch Brilliant Smallfish, Longjaws, Bristle Whiskers and Deviate Fish. The Deviates sell extremly well in AH (2-5G per 20 stack on my server). You can pick up the Savory Deviate Suprise recipe above WC (Cooked deviates also sell well in AH). The rest become cooking fodder. Cook Smallfish until you are 75. Though you might have to suppliment with farming Strider meat, which is ok Strider Stew gives a decent low level buff.

Once cooking is up to 75 cook all the Longjaws you've caught until you're either maxed at 150 or the skill is grey. At which point cook Bristlewhiskers to finish cooking 150. After that you will have both fishing and cooking maxed till you can get the appropriate training books for both skills. The whole process took me about an hour to max both skills to 150 and make about 15 gold selling deviate fish.

Edited, Thu Dec 15 00:52:46 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

The expert cookbook is only 80s, not 1g :)

Comment by Allakhazam

She is in a building near Mystic Lake. Been looking for this book for over a week now. Wierd they would put it on a regular vendor.

Edited, Sat Nov 13 11:40:57 2004

Comment by Allakhazam

for the horde go to south barrens and kill stormhides (and similar beasts)for lizard tails.

alliance players can get raptor meat (and eggs) in wetlands.

Comment by Allakhazam

For Alliance now it is:

Shandrini <trade goods>
in Silverwind Refuge
next to lake Mystral

at lower mid portion of map for Ashenvale

Comment by Allakhazam

The Expert Cookbook is to be find in Shadowpray Village at 26,69

Comment by Allakhazam

Alliance can find this in Silverpine Refuge in Ashenvale, continent of Kalimdor.

Comment by Allakhazam

Buy the expert cookbook from NE Shandrina at the Silverwing Retreat in Ashenvale, (SE of Astrannar, on Mystral Lake, near the Talondeep Path). Coords 49,67 Shandrina is a Trade Vender. I believe the book sells for 1g but NE's get a 10% discount.

Comment by Allakhazam

No more to say than has already been said here, except that when you reach the limits of this "expert" cookbook at 225/225, and go to Gadgetzan to get further training to keep going with your cooking--make sure you've also been LVLing your character. This is for those of U who don't already know this...if it's been posted, forgive me, I haven't seen it, but there will be no more cooking lessons until your character is a LVL 35.

For me, that's a priest...a NElf Priest. I was a LVL 25 priest when I first travelled all the way from SW to G-zan to "get my training" in cooking (rough neighborhood, BTW) So, after going all that way, which is not an easy feat when you go for the first time with no flight paths, or shortcuts or anything, only to find out I did it all for nuttin, was a tad frustrating. I DID pick up a dozen or so flight paths, found some great questing grounds, fishing holes & herbs...so I suppose it was worth the run. That was a few mos ago. :o)

I'm STILL LVLing my Priest, who is my main character. She's a LVL 32 priest, now, & we'll get back to G-zan one of these days. I still "cook" what I want--just don't get credit for any of it. I sell a lot of my end product at the AH to folks who don't wanna cook, & I actually make a little $$$. Guess that's reward enuff for now. LOL

Doccynney

Edited, Oct 10th 2007 11:30pm by CindyDoc

Comment by Allakhazam

How do I as a Undead get to the rank Expert Cook?
I read this and the only I found is how the alliance gets it.
What´s the cords for the Hord?

Comment by Allakhazam

The Expert Cookbook is to be find in Shadowprey Village at 26,69

Comment by Allakhazam

Since patch 3.1, you can learn the expert cooking from the usual cooking trainers (see http://www.wowwiki.com/Cooking)

I crossed whole continents to go to retrieve the book, only to find that it wasn't sold anymore )=

Comment by Allakhazam

I am at Wulan now in schadow prey village,
but there is no cookbook he is selling ...

i want this cookbook, it is not on AH,
Not on this vendor, how the f** should i get it?

Comment by Fhuura

For Alliance, Silverwind Refuge in Ashenvale 49,67. Shandrina is a night elf Trade Goods vendor, to the far right when you walk in to the refuge. You buy the Expert Cookbook from her for 90s.

Edit: Typo

Comment by mesugo

This cookbook is NOT Bind on Pickup, so you can send it to alts or sell it on the AH.

Comment by Relderf

In WotLK you no longer have to buy this book (and it actually isn't sold anymore). You can just learn the skill out of any cooking trainer.

Comment by Bandeeto

For those who didn't get the memo like me, this book is just straight up not available in SoD.

Comment by Megtar

Phase 2 in Season of Discovery just started (Patch SoD 1.15.1.53247) and I confirm that Expert Cookbook is available and works just fine. Bought it from Wulan (Horde).
Raised my cooking cap to 225 without any problems.

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Expert Cookbook

Item Level 30

Requires Cooking (125)
Use: Teaches you how to be an Expert Cook, allowing a maximum of 225 cooking skill.

Sell Price: 25

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