I might be just completely blind but wasn't there a button that let you try out random stuff to find recipes when using the knife and board, I seem to only be able to do the recipes you start with. Hope I'm not just blind and wasting time here.
I had the same question Logrus (cool name btw loved those books)
I figured they took it out and forgot to change the text.
and discovering loses it's interest really fast on an internet game, you'd just look it up on a wiki.
Yeah I guess I agree with that, working for recipe books is probably a better solution or maybe random discovering like in World of Warcraft to reward those who cook a lot or maybe both.
(and thank you, yeah they are awesome and there are some great names in them)