Hello,
I am wanting to give cooking a shot but does anyone know a good place to buy the meats and ingredients so a lazy soul like myself can just buy everything at one place and then cook it all?

I haven't figured out cooking to be honest, you have to be super roleplayer to use them. Some of them give you like 4 hp healed? Or ya cook 'em and get like 10 hp healed? I haven't figured it out yet, but there is nothing like you can go into Everquest mode and make a camp, and eat food. I think maybe it's bugged or summit.