Let’s go down the list right quick since I know a lot of people are asking about this stuff. Here’s what we have so far regarding professions in WotLK. I will cover the most vague or undeveloped professions in this post and the more fleshed out professions in following posts.
Alchemy: There isn’t jack. It’s just [...]

This week (yes I know I’m like 2 days late, wanna fight about it?) DLC is tackling cooking under the new NPC regime. In many nations, when a terribad dictator for life comes to power and the poverty stricken denizens are forced to the extreme, one would indeed eat their pet baby elekk.

I managed to get my shaman’s cooking up to 375 by means of mass bear and lobster genocide as well as talbuk and clefthoof slaughtering. I also somehow got some crawfish in there too. Needless to say it didn’t take me nearly as long as I thought. With the new recipes added in Patch 2.4 [...]

In a damn amusing post about bags of meat, Drysc decided to make an appearance and give a little blue tint to the concept.
*phew* I thought you meant a bag made of meat, which just creeps me the hell out.
Hrm, a bag that specifically only holds meat? Is that really needed?

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Patch 2.4: New Cooking Recipes (src)
It sounds like you need either some Charred Bear Kabobs or Juicy Bear Burgers! oh so yummy mmmm…
Oh, right, details, they’ll be purchasable from either Bale (Horde) or Malygen (Alliance) in Felwood in patch 2.4, they’ll use meat added to level 48-56 bears, and they will require 250 skill to [...]