The gotwarcraft cooking guide, check out thottbot or other such resources if you need specific drop rates/mobs or zones for any given recipe/item.

This is a compact overview to increase your cooking skill to the skill cap. For an in-depth guide including gold-making oppotunities, please take a look at this WoW profession guide.

225 – Artisan Cooking Quest
Head over to gadgetzan for this quest, you’ll need to speak to Dirge Quickcleave to pick it up first, the objective being Clamlette Surprise.

To finish it 12 Giant Eggs, 10 Zesty Clam meat, and 20 Alterac Swiss is required.  The Alterac Swiss is the easiest to get as it’s buyable off a vendor named Ben Trias in the trade district of Stormwind City, Horde can buy it off the Thunderbluff inkeeper.

The second and third ingredients are gathered by killing Owlbeasts in the Hinterlands and Turtles in Tanaris, Eggs and Clam Meat respectively.  Once you’re done turn it all in and get ready for the ride from 225-375.

Alliance

1 - 75

1 - 40
Spice Bread (1 x Simple Flour, 1 x Mild Spices) x 40
40 - 75
Smoked Bear Meat (1x Bear Meat) x 50

75 – 175

75 - 85
Crab Cake (1 x Crawler Meat) x 10
85 - 100
Cooked Crab Claw (1 x Crab Claw, 1 x Mild Spice) x 20
100 - 130
Seasoned Wolf Kabob (2 x Lean Wolf Flank, 1 x Stormwind Seasoning Herbs) x 30
130 - 175
Curiously Tasty Omelet (1x Raptor Egg, 1 x Hot Spice) x 50

175 - 225

175 - 200
Roast Raptor (1 x Raptor Meat, 1 x Hot Spices) x 30
200 - 225
Spider Sausage (2 x White Spider Meat) x 30

225 - 325

225 - 285
Monster Omelet (1 x Giant Egg, 2 x Soothing Spices) x 80
285 – 300
Smoked Desert Dumplings (1 x Sandworm Meat, 1 x Soothing Spices) x 20
300 – 325
Ravager Dog (1 x Ravager Flesh)
Note: You’ll need to buy the master cooking book off of Father Malgor Devidicus located within Honor Hold/Hellfire Penninsula before you can go past 300 cooking skill.

350 – 375

325 – 350
Roasted Clefthoof (1 x Clefthoof Meat) x 35-40
350 – 375
Spicy Crawdad (1 x Furious Crawdad) x 30-40

Horde

1 – 125

1 - 40
Spice Bread (1 x Simple Flour, 1 x Mild Spices) x 50
40 - 75
Smoked Bear Meat (1x Bear Meat) x 60
90 - 125
Dig Rat Stew (1 x Dig Rat) x 40

125 – 225

125 – 175
Hot Lion Chops (1 x Lion Meat, 1 x Hot Spices) x 60
175 – 200
Roast Raptor (1 x Raptor flesh, 1 x Hot Spices) x 30
200 - 225
Spider Sausage (2 x White Spider Meat) x 30

225 - 325

225 - 285
Monster Omelet (1 x Giant Egg, 2 x Soothing Spices) x 80
285 – 300
Smoked Desert Dumplings (1 x Sandworm Meat, 1 x Soothing Spices) x 20
300 – 325
Ravager Dog (1 x Ravager Flesh)
Note: You’ll need to buy the master cooking book off of Cookie One-Eye located within Thrallmar/Hellfire Penninsula before you can go past 300 cooking skill.

350 – 375

325 – 350
Roasted Clefthoof (1 x Clefthoof Meat) x 35-40
350 – 375
Spicy Crawdad (1 x Furious Crawdad) x 30-40