Good god I just looked at some of the recipes! This is insane.

No one is going to spend 3k - 10k gil for a 30 minute increase of a total 46 stat points that disappears on death... That's INSANE.

Not to mention to craft any food you need to go all over the world and collect stuff, in addition to killing a variety of mobs.

Would be nice if cooking crafted multiple foods per craft, but more than that if food buffs persisted through death as well.