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So you want some good recipes, without having to learn everything to cook them yourself? No problem! I can come to your camp (or your favorite limestone or digging spot, etc.) and cook them for you, for a suitable price. You'll have to provide the base ingredients (typically cheap stuff like veggies or common fish), while I'll bring the additives needed. Because you provide the base ingredients, there can be any number of servings you like. You'll also have to provide the kitchen, upgraded with a copper cookpot.

You can pick the stats you want, and leave some stats unspecified. You can also decide whether you want the meal to have salt (and hence last four days rather than two), and specify a duration. You pay for the stats on the meal you get, except that if any stats are higher than what you requested, you only pay for what you requested. If any stats come out more than 5 below what you requested, the entire meal is half price. If any stats come out more than 10 below what you requested, the entire meal is free. Requesting stats below +10 is not recommended, as the price difference between requesting 0 and +10 is inconsequential. You cannot request a duration longer than 60 minutes, and I reserve the right to refuse any requests. You cannot, for example, request a meal of +100 endurance, and get a free meal.

There are two components to the price. First is the travel fee. There is no travel fee if you want the food cooked within 300 coordinates of (1450, 2250). Otherwise, the travel fee is the number of chariot stops away from Seven Lakes to reach the chariot nearest your camp, with Seven Lakes also counting as 1 chariot stop away. Then Seven Lakes, Upper Egypt, Cradle of the Sun, Karnak, Fool's Paradise, and Desert of Shades count as one chariot stop away, while all other regions except Tanis and Khartoum count as two chariot stops away. If you want the foods cooked more than 1000 coords from the nearest chariot stop (my camp can count as the nearest chariot stop for this purpose), then add chariot stop per 1000 coords from the nearest chariot stop, rounded to the nearest integer. The travel fee per travel unit is 200, either in herbs from my herb price list, or as listed below:

garlic: 1
barley: 2
dates: 2
perch: 0.7
abdju: 1
oxyrynchus: 1
carp: 1
serpent fish: 3

The meal fee is fairly complicated, so I've made a spreadsheet to compute it, attached to this page. Note that the cost increases sharply if you want higher stats. The cost also varies by stat, with constitution and focus cheaper, and endurance more expensive. Cost also increases sharply if you want to specify the stats of several different stats, so a meal may well be much more expensive if you add that a couple stats have to be at least zero. For example, if you want an endurance recipe for flax, and a speed recipe for fishing, it will be much cheaper to get them as two separate recipes than in the same meal. The meal fee must come from my herb price list.

If you buy more than one meal at the same time, then you only get charged one travel fee. Likewise, if you and some neighbors each want a recipe, if you can have me come out at the same time to make all the recipes, you only get charged one travel fee to split among you, rather than each having to independently pay me to travel.

If the meal fee for a given meal exceeds 1000, I reserve the right to scroll off the additives. I'm not interested in giving away the high-end combinations that took a while for me to come up with. If someone else comes up with his own high-end combinations, he may use something different from what I use, allowing more high-end recipes to be made without killing the potency on the combos I personally use. For cheaper recipes, as well as more expensive ones that aren't a pain for me to design, you'll be able to see the recipe just fine.

If you pick 60 as the requested duration, it's likely that the meal will be a masterpiece. There's no extra charge if it happens to be a masterpiece. If you pick a much shorter duration, then the meal will not be a masterpiece.