Cooking
Crafting
Crafting is the final step of a three-part process to create usable items, after Gathering / Farms and Refining / Pastures. The great majority of equipment and consumable items in Albion Online are made via crafting.
Crafting is developed separately from both Gathering and Refining on the Destiny Board. In addition, Crafting is divided thoroughly into very specific specialties. Some crafting costs may be reduced by using Crafting Focus.
Cooking
Cooking is a skill/proficiency a craftsman can choose in the world of Albion. Cooking entails the cooking of meals in order to temporarily boost your stats, as well as creating fish bait for your fishing rod. This skill is developed and trained at a Cook.
The crafting of food & other various items is unlocked through Farming, much like the alchemy & breeding skills.
Hierarchy
Start
Sous Chef
(1/1) NOTE: Currently, crafting any fish-related items will not contribute fame to completion of the single level for Sous Chef.
Adept Cook
(1/100) 
Turnip Salad
Expert Cook
(10/100) Special Fish Bait
Master Cook
(30/100) 
Potato Salad
Grandmaster Cook
(60/100)
Pork Omelette
Elder Cook
(100/100)
Beef Stew
Enchanting
Food can be enchanted through the addition of Fish Sauce. The higher tier your base food is, the more fish sauce you need in order to enchant the food. Each tier of enchantment (.1/.2/.3) takes a different kind of fish sauce. Basic Fish Sauce, Fancy Fish Sauce & Special Fish Sauce. In order to create these items you need Chopped Fish & Seaweed on top of the resources you need for the "base recipe".
Example screenshot of enchanting a Pork Omelette:
Chef Masteries
Soup Chef
Get fame by crafting Carrot Soup (T1) or better. There are no soups at T2, T4, T6, T7 and T8.
Farm based soups: Carrot Soup (T1), Wheat Soup (T3), Cabbage Soup (T5) . These soups give health regeneration and also feed the following: Lumbermill (Carrot), Smelter (Wheatg) and Cook (Cabbage).
Fish based soups: Greenmoor Clam Soup (T1), Murkwater Clam Soup (T3), Blackbog Clam Soup (T5). These soups give health and energy regeneration.
Salad Chef
Get fame by crafting Bean Salad (T2) or better. There are no salads at T3, T5, T7 and T8.
Vegetable salads gives crafting speed and quality. They are also used as food supply for buildings. They are Bean Salad (T2) (Stonemason), Turnip Salad (T4) (Toolmaker) and Potato Salad (T6) (Hunter's Lodge).
Fish salads are the only food that are not better than their vegetable counterparts. These do not feed any buildings: Shallowshore Squid Salad (T2), Midwater Octopus Salad (T4) and Deepwater Kraken Salad (T6).
The T1 salad Seaweed Salad gives 100% health regeneration.
Pie Chef
Craft Grilled Fish (T1) or better to gain fame. There are no pies at T4, T6 and T8.
Farm animal pies: Chicken Pie (T3), Goose Pie (T5) and Pork Pie (T7). These pies increase Gathering Yield and Load Capacity.
Fish pies additionally give CC Resistance. They are Upland Coldeye Pie (T3), Mountain Blindeye Pie (T5) and Frostpeak Deadeye Pie (T7).
The Grilled Fish reduces cooldowns by 3.8%.
Omelette Chef
Mastery raised with Chicken Omelette (T3) or better. Omelettes reduce Casting Times and Cooldowns. There are no omelettes at T4, T6 and T8.
Farm based omelettes are also used as food for buildings: [Chicken Omelette]] (T3) (Weaver), Goose Omelette (T5) (Mill), Pork Omelette (T7) (Alchemist's Lab).
Fish based omelettes have an extra boost in Energy Cost reduction: Lowriver Crab Omelette (T3), Drybrook Crab Omelette (T5), Dusthole Crab Omelette (T7).
Stew Chef
Stews are available only at T4, T6 and T8 and you can get fame only by crafting Goat Stew (T4) or better. They give a boost to Combat Damage with the fish versions giving Cooldown Reduction as well.
Farm animal stews: Goat Stew (T4), Mutton Stew (T6) and Beef Stew (T8).
Fish based stews: Greenriver Eel Stew (T4), Redspring Eel Stew (T6) and Deadwater Eel Stew (T8).
Only these stews can be used to feed buildings: Goat Stew (Repair Station and Saddler) and Beef Stew (Warrior's Forge).
Sandwich Chef
Like stews, sandwiches are T4, T6 and T8 only and you need to craft Goat Sandwich (T4) or better to gain fame. They increase Maximum Health with the fish versions additionally giving a boost to Healing Received.
Farm animal based: Goat Sandwich (T4), Mutton Sandwich (T6) (feeds Mage's Tower) and Beef Sandwich (T8).
Fish based: Stonestream Lurcher Sandwich (T4), Rushwater Lurcher Sandwich (T6) and Thunderfall Lurcher Sandwich (T8).
Ingredient Chef
These items can be crafted but are not directly usable: Goat's Butter, Sheep's Butter, Cow's Butter. Get fame by crafting Goat's Butter or better.
Butcher
Get fame by crafting Raw Chicken (T3) or better and like Ingredients above, are not directly usable. Higher tier items: Raw Goat (T4), Raw Goose (T5), Raw Mutton (T6), Raw Pork (T7) and Raw Beef (T8).