In early levels as a Mage, you may neglect the cooking profession when you first started playing World of Warcraft. You treat it as a boring and menial task for an aspiring heroic type. Instead, you focused all your energies and mana on daily grind for cheap wow gold and hanging out with guide friends in the Pig and Whistle.
   It does not mean that cooking was hard for mysterious, it is just that you never appreciated the many advantageous that cooling can provide even for a Mage. After all, why to learn cook when we could simple conjure up a tasty cinnamon roll?
   From an early level, to learn to cook has many advantages, especially for those classes that can not create their own food. By having a handy supply of high energy nosh in your old kit bag you will spend less time healing and reducing the downtime between grinding sessions, which enable you to grind for longer and increase your hourly rate of gold production as a result.
   In the form of additional stamina and spirit, cooking has also the advantages of adding buffs to food, which provide you to stay seated for at least ten seconds while eating. These buffs increase in value and longevity the higher the cooking skill you reach and the range of exotic food that you will be able to cook; this is in addition to the amount of health per second the food supplies.
   This fact is that the cook is at the Pig and Whistle. In between practicing with throwing the knives, there is someone who will show you how to cook a mean spider sausage and a lean coyote steak. The steak only requires a cooking skill of 50 and restores 243 health over 21 seconds; in addition, you will receive a buff of plus 4 stamina and spirit. The sausage, on the other hand, requires you to have a cooking skill of 200 and restores 1392 health over 30 seconds in addition to a buff of plus 12 stamina and spirit lasting 15 minutes.
   As one of the many cooking trainers, you will find them in every major city but coming by cooking recipes is another matter. While many of the trainers will also supply a limited number of common recipes, you will find many exotic and hard-to-find recipes located all over Azeroth, sold by a wide variety of vendors - not just cooks.
   As rewards, recipes are supplied for quests and these can be a useful way to help you grind and level your cooking skills at the same time. For example, there is the quest for Thelsamar Blood Sausages obtained from Vidra Hearthstove at Loch Modan. Of course the reward is the recipe for Blood Sausage (Cooking 60, Health 243, Stamina +4, Spirit +4). As you travel around the Loch you can not help run into all the necessary wildlife necessary for the quest.
   If you are really stuck for a recipe, why not head back to the Pig and Whistle? There you will find the famous Kendor Kabonka, Master of Cooking Recipes. Kendor sells around 13 recipes - many of which are also supplied as quest rewards such as the recipe for Westfall Stew and Redbridge Goulash.
   Here is the thing that very few people know of Kendor and his recipes so why not snap up several for a few silvers and auction them for several gold. Many folks will bite your hand off to obtain them!
   Through the above-mentioned discussion, we best hope that you are able to get the hang of learning to cook without difficulties. Good luck!