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Comment by jonrock

74 awards are needed to buy all Northrend recipes. Another 100 are needed to buy the chef's hat.

Comment by buggysdad

Blizz needs to make these tradeable for the Cata awards so twinks can not only get all the recipes but also the hat.

Comment by Magito

would be nice for those of us that have lots of these rewards left over to be able to exchange them for the chefs awards even if it is 20-1.

Comment by Unrage

If you are planning to farm them, you should do the daily cooking quests in Dalaran (Alliance Version), but you should also do the fishing ones, since they give you a Bag of Fishing Treasures when completed, and it has a small chance to give you a Waterlogged Recipe, a quest item which awards 5 Dalaran Cooking Award.

Comment by Scoobie10

Not sure why, but I reveiced a Dalaran Cooking Award after I went to Sara Brady in the sewers, purchased the mats for Darkbrew Lager, created it, then drank it. Anyone know why?

Comment by Dampfnudel

I just recently noticed that I got more Awards from each quest than i should.

It seems that every quest now gives you one more award than the quest says.
Or is there a guild perk in play i'm not aware of?

EDIT: So this ist how it is: You get one Award from the Small Spice Bag. But you will never see it in the bag, it is added to your Currency Tab once you open the bag

Comment by Minifey33

LOL I am new Rogue human, just new to WOW. I am over whelmed and some what frustrated learning the way to play WOW and enjoy the game too. However, I found this to give me some what of guardian angel at my back. It gives me a place to review and I don’t have to figure and learn every thing all at once. I want to enjoy leveling and not die trying everything while I explore the continents. Thanks. Minifey

Comment by TheStatman

All Chef's Award (Cataclysm ones) in your currency tab have now been converted to Epicurean's Award (these used to be Dalaran Cooking Award). All old Dalaran Cooking Award you had have now been renamed Epicurean's Award. This is similar to the way Valor and Conquest points converted down when new raids/seasons happen.

Dalaran Cooking Award has had its name changed to Epicurean's Award, and Chef's Award has had its name changed to Ironpaw Token.

So, say you had 100 Dalaran Cooking Award and 50 Chef's Award on your currency tab before 5.0.4. You now have 150 Epicurean's Award and 0 Ironpaw Token.

The Cataclysm Daily cooking quests in major cities reward Epicurean's Award, and all Cataclysm cooking recipes sold in the major cities need Epicurean's Award to be purchased, including Imported Supplies.

Comment by TheStatman

When MoP launches (possibly even with the 5.0.1 pre-launch patch) all Chef's Award (Cataclysm ones) in your currency tab will be converted to Epicurean's Award (these used to be Dalaran Cooking Award). All old Dalaran Cooking Award you have will remain, but under the Epicurean's Award name. This is similar to the way Valor and Conquest points convert down when new raids/seasons happen.

Dalaran Cooking Award has its name changed to Epicurean's Award, and Chef's Award has its name changed to Ironpaw Token.

So, say you have 100 Dalaran Cooking Award and 50 Chef's Award on your currency tab before MoP. Then when MoP launches you will now have 150 Epicurean's Award and 0 Ironpaw Token.

- Currently on the Beta and subject to change -

The Cataclysm Daily cooking quests in major cities DO reward Ironpaw Token currently in the MoP Beta, and Cataclysm cooking recipes sold in the major cities need Ironpaw Token to be purchased.

I expect this to change before MoP launches due to what the tooltips on Epicurean's Award and Ironpaw Token say on beta.

Comment by finnishboy

can u use Chef's Award to buy dalaran recipes?

Comment by julienpdx

This is a comment based on the MoP database article entry (which, for some reason is inappropriately merged with the live version).

Epicurean's Award is designed to replace/combine the old "Chef's Award" from faction capitol city cooking dailies and "Dalaran Cooking Award(s)" for both factions in Dalaran. All pre-MoP cooking recipes requiring a purchase will use this new currency. This changes a few things. For one, new characters who are after the cooking achievements will definitely want to start doing these dailies as soon as possible due to the high amount (162 total) to purchase all recipes.

The combined total of all Epicurean Awards to purchase ALL of the Wrath and Cataclysm recipes is

88/91 for all Cataclysm-level recipes
74 for all Wrath-level recipes

In Mists of Pandaria, cooking dailies will not only be broken down by a new specialization system, but they will use their own currency (Ironpaw Token)

Perhaps the greatest news about this new system is that all Chef's Award and Dalaran Cooking Awards left in in your currency balance after Mists launches will combine. Those of you who haven't already purchased "Chef's Hat" will soon be able to do so without doing Dalaran's dailies in the meantime.

It still isn't clear if, since both the Capitol cities and Dalaran will offer the same reward for their dailies, if you will not able to do both on the same day.

Comment by Herukakaya

As TheStatman points out, these awards are only from the Dalaran and Major City cooking dailies. In case you were wondering, the Shattrath cooking dailies from The Rokk do not award Epicurean Awards (since they never awarded anything but the crate/barrel).

Comment by Tyrrannus

If one is looking to dump a bunch of these awards, having previously built up a stash and not needing to purchase any more recipes, goods, or the Chef's hat, what is the most cost-efficient way to convert these to gold? Is it buying the crates of meat and selling (or cooking and selling) them or is there a better way?

Is there a way to transfer these between characters?

Comment by Linkcisco

About cooking dailies in Stormwind, Darnassus or Ironforge:
Some days the daily of a city can give 2 Epicurean's Award while the other cities give just one.
Is a good idea, if you are interested in farming, check the rewards to get more Awards per day (since you can complete the daily of just 1 city)
I've seen 2 cities giving 2 Awards on the same day, also I've seen days with all the cities giving just 1 Award. Same thing for cooking levels rewards, some cities can reward you with 1 level and other with 2 on the same day (valid for fishing too).

In dalaran you always get 1 Award from the bag and 1 or 2 Awards as direct reward (Mustard Dogs! gives 2). So you get 2 or 3 Awards per day from dalaran.

edit: If I said something wrong please reply this entry.
edit 2: Today for first time I saw a daily that doesn't give "+1 cooking level" or +2, it was I Need to Cask a Favor in Ironforge. 18/11/2012 (Patch 5.0.5).

Comment by stym

If you are farming these to grab all of the purchasable recipes in Dalaran and your Capital (say, for the Iron Chef achievement), be patient. Not counting the occasional Waterlogged Recipe that can spawn in a Bag of Fishing Treasures, obtained after doing a Dalaran fishing daily, you can only get them by doing 2 dailies a day:
One from Dalaran (Awilo Lon'gomba or Katherine Lee)
One from one of your three major faction cities.

There is a 20% chance in each location to get the quest that rewards you with 2 awards.
Since you can only do one daily per day in your three faction cities, it is worth checking with the daily providers in each city to see if a 2-award quest is available. If you are a mage, or have a mage alt, checking the quest givers takes a minute.
The Bag reward from Dalaran now automatically gives an extra award.

Your chance of getting a 2-award quest from Dalaran: 20%
Your chance of getting a 2-award quest from one of your faction cities: 1 - (0.8x0.8x0.8) = 48.8%
(80% chance in each of the three cities of not getting the 2-award quest)

Your average daily award intake: 1 + 0.2x2 + 0.8x1 + 0.488x2 + 0.512x1 = 3.688
You need a total of 175 awards (74 for Wrath recipes and 91 for Cataclysm recipes)

Soooo... that's over 48 days total.
Again, if you do the Dalaran fishing daily, you get a shot at an additional 5 awards. Someone might even put a Waterlogged Recipe at the Auction house, so don't forget to check there.

Comment by Fandralen

Apparently named after Epicureanism, a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of ancient Greek Epicurus.

Comment by schlickschlick

"Visit special cooking vendors in Dalaran and the capital cities to to purchase unusual cooking recipes, spices, and even a fine hat!"

Is it just me, or did Blizzard fail at English?

Comment by Rhelan

Doing the chefs' dailies can be extremely rewarding as a low level - Crocolisk Tail goes for 7g/5 on my server - and I received 7 from doing a cooking daily at level 10.

Comment by TrainwrecHelFire

You can buy Small Spice Bag which has 1 Epicurean's Award from Auzin now as well. They go for 25 Timewarped badge per bag. Makes getting them a lot faster than just doing the dailies.

Comment by Sempan

Dont forget that you can realm jump (Server Hop Addon) to get the Quests that you want. Works in Dalaran / Thunder Bluff and Undercity.

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Alliance - Ribs for the Sentinels (Darnassus), Keepin' the Haggis Flowin' (Ironforge), Feeling Crabby? (Stormwind)

Horde - Everything Is Better with Bacon (Orgrimmar), Corn Mash (Thunder Bluff), Roach Coach (Undercity)

Dalaran - Mustard Dogs! / Mustard Dogs!

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