Alot of food and drinks give you boosts on your stats. Check out Misty
thicket picnics and 10lb Halas Met Pies. Now, those are going top of the
line foods but there are plenty that take a much lower trivial to produce
and still give you boosts.

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From: "John" <flagonslayer@...>
Reply-To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
To: <EverQuest@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [EverQuest] Question bout tradeskills and such
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:24:08 -0500

Howdy,
I'm relatively new to EQ, an I'm sill feeling my way around things. I
do havfe a question. No th Trade skills, Im understand most of them, they're
pretty straitforward...but I do have a question bout the cooking one. Why? I
understand smithing...get ore, make bars, make weapons/armour...I know in
EQ, every so many time units, you automaticlly eat food. Since rations and
milk will fill this funcion, what is the purpose of cookin and brewing? Do
you get more food value out of something you've made, as oppoised to the
rations and bisquits? Can you eat the food and get boosts from it? Same
thing for the brewing? Or is it just a vanity thing to be walking around
with something you cooked as opposed to the iron raions and milk thing...

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