Cooking

Cooking 1-70

Level     Item                                           Mats
1-40     Spice Bread                                 Mild Spices and Simple Flour per combine.
Taught by these Trainers

40-70   Spiced Wolf Meat                        Stringy Wolf Meat
Taught by these Trainers


Cooking 70-130

Level     Item                                           Mats
70-120   Crunchy Spider Surprise          Crunchy Spider Leg
Sold by these Vendors

120-130  Crab Cake                           Crawler Meat
Taught by these Trainers


Cooking 130-225

Level     Item                                           Mats
130-185  Curiously Tasty Omelet           Raptor Egg
Sold by these Vendors
Alternative: Lean Wolf Steak from Super-Seller 680 or Vendor-Tron 1000

185-225 Roast Raptor                             Raptor Flesh
Sold by these Vendors


Cooking 225-300

Level     Item                                           Mats
225-250 Monster Omelet                        Giant Egg
Sold at these vendors in Winterspring and Felwood.

250-285 Juicy Bear Burger                     Bear Flank
Sold in Felwood at these vendors. This is for Alliance only, see the next step for Horde.

250-285 Clamette Magnifique                Zesty Clam Meat
You'll need to accept Clamette Surprise from Dirge Quikcleave in Gadgetzan to get the recipe for Clamette Magnifique.

285-300 Smoked Desert Dumplings       Sandworm Meat
To get this recipe, complete the second part of this quest chain: Desert Recipe it starts from Calandrath in Cenarion Hold, Silithus.


Cooking 300-350

Level     Item                                           Mats
300-330 Ravage Dog                              Ravager Flesh
Purchased in the Outlands from these Vendors
Alternative: Buzzard Bites from Smooth as Butter (or sometimes available on the Auction House)

330-350 Roasted Clefthoof or                Clefthoof Meat or Talbuk Venison
Talbuk Steak
Both are found in Nagrand from Uriku for Alliance and Nula the Butcher for Horde.


Cooking 350-450

You'll need to buy one recipe for this section that will require you to do Dalaran Cooking Dailies. You can pick whatever recipe you want to use but for the sake of simply leveling I'd suggest getting Spiced Mammoth Treats, Critter Bites, or Hearty Rhino.

350-400
Alliance: Rhino Dogs
Horde: Shoveltusk Steak
Rhino Meat
or Shoveltusk Flank
You'll have to make these while they are green but it's simpler to do it this way than the other options available.
For this next step you will need to do Dalaran Cooking Dailies to gain Dalaran Cooking Awards in order to buy a recipe with Dalaran Cooking Awards.
Check out Dalaran Daily Cooking Guide for a walkthrough of the quests.

400-425
Any Dalaran Cooking Awards Recipe Learned at 400

425-450
Blackened Surprise
Toughened Flesh

Cooking 450-525

Unfortunately the only way to level from 450-525 is by purchasing recipes with Chef's Awards (which are received from doing the Cooking Dailies in Stormwind and Orgrimmar). Luckily, these dailies are really simple to do. Keep in mind that you can buy any recipe you want, assuming you buy one that you can train at 450, one at 475, and one at 500. You could even buy recipes that require fish if you don't have fishing, if you buy the fish off the Auction House. I'll list the best recipes to get if you are planning to farm meat, but the choice is up to you.
 
Level     Item                                           Mats
450-475 Whitecrest Gumbo                    Blood Shrimp

475-500 Hearty Seafood Soup                Blood Shrimp

500-525
Grilled Dragon or Beer-Basted Crocolisk or Crocolisk Au Gratin or Basilisk Liverdog