Cooking is important and involves combining ingredients into a dish using a Cooking Pot. There are three types of dishes that you can make, basic healthy ones that only fill your hearts, Status Dishes that both fill your hearts and give you a status, and elixirs that only give you a status effect. There can only be one bonus effect per meal at any time and you can hold up to 60 dishes and/or elixirs at a time. You will be able to tell what the added bonus effect of a food is by its prefix, these are as follows:
Hearty - Recover all Hearts/Temporary extra Hearts
Energizing - Restore Stamina
Enduring - Temporary extra Stamina
Fireproof - Resist Fire
Chilly - Resist Heat
Spicy - Resist Cold
Electro - Resist Shock
Hasty - Increase Movement Speed
Sneaky - Increase Stealthiness
Mighty - Increase Attack
Tough - Increase Defense