Hobby: Catering

Catering is one of the many hobbies that players can take up. Catering allows a player to cook a large range of recipes, from meat dishes to beverages, poultry to baking, etc. Food plays a helpful role in character's adventures, restoring energy and providing helpful benefits to their skills and abilities. Catering can also be a business tool for enterprising players, or even gain grant players Valiance by delivering food parcels to poor villages.

Training
Culinary Instructors will give you your first lesson in Catering, and award you with an Empty Cookbook, which is accessed from your Hobbies panel. He or she will also teach you your first recipe.

Additional recipes are acquired through various means. Culinary Intstructors will teach basic recipes to get players started. As with all hobbies, occupations and other vocations, players advance in this skill by devoting time to it. After certain milestones of time spent cooking, your character will proceed to the next proficiency. Again, as with other hobbies, there are 5 hobby ranks, which represent five difficulties of recipe.

Rank 1: Scullery Hand
This rank is granted upon learning the Catering hobby, and allows players to purchase basic recipes off Culinary Instructors. For recipes acquired through other means, only those of rank 1 are able to be successfully cooked by a character. Attempts at cooking harder recipes will result in a mess.

Rank 2: Apprentice Chef
At this level, Culinary Instructors will offer small quests that will unlock rank 2 recipes for you to cook. These are the first recipes that provide the character with any benefit to skills and abilities. Each Instructor will offer a quest once a day.
 * Hours Required: 3

Rank 3: Refectory Chef
Now that you are beginning to catch the attention of chefs and cuisine critics, you will have access to the Chef's Guild. These buildings can be found in most cities, and provide a place for Catering hobbyists to come and share recipes and cook meals.
 * Hours Required: 10

Classes are hosted every three days, in which players will learn new rank 3 recipes.

Rank 4: Sous-Chef
As a sous-chef you are really beginning to earn the respect of those around you. Head Chefs within the guild structure will offer exciting adventures to foreign lands to learn exotic new recipes. These quest chains take much longer, but offer as many as four or five rank 4 recipes in return.
 * Hours Requireed: 25

Also, as a sous-chef, you are able to take up most cooking occupations without having to do a course in Hospitality. On top of that, you will be awarded with a Sous-Chef Regalia, allowing you to cook in style!

Rank 5: Culinary Master
Your cooking skills are unmatched; there is nothing you can't cook if you set your mind to it. At this level, you will gain a Master Chef's Tome, which can be used once every quarter-season to discover a potent rank 5 recipe. These are instructions to dishes and meals that make the tongue quiver with delight, and provide powerful benefits to a characters skills. You can also prepare Improvised Stews, whereby you put random ingredients into a pot of boiling water and the food will have a random benefit.
 * Hours Required: 50