Skills for Anyone (even the non-crafting consumer)

Gourmand skills add 5/10/20 minutes to the duration of any food consumed. While useful if you plan to focus on food buffs, this is not truly necessary unless you start relying on gold food since ingredients other than perfect roe are relatively plentiful.

Connoisseur skills add 5/10/20 minutes to the duration of any drink consumed. While the ability to extend the duration of any food/drink buff is always handy, this skill is absolutely essential before drinking Ambrosias (the experience boosting drinks that can be consumed alongside another food or drink). As ambrosia is quite expensive due to the rarity of the ingredients, be sure to invest in this skill before paying several thousand gold for an experience boost that only lasts 30 minutes.

Skill Progression for the Provisioner

A total of 14 skill points are recommended to effectively train your provisioner, with 1 point to be immediately invested in Recipe Quality (2) while keeping Recipe Improvement in step with your most advanced character's level.

When ready to make Psijic Ambrosia, the Brewer skill line is absolutely essential to not waste perfect roe for just one serving of it. Until then, this skill line may be initially superfluous as low level food/drink ingredients are so plentiful. Your first character should instead purchase your Ambrosias (if you use them) rather than investing these points too early.

This table does not include the Hireling. While sometimes useful, when skill points are at a premium I'd not spend any here as you can also receive purple food ingredients (and will receive recipes too) through doing daily writs. However, once you have an abundance of points, I would recommend the Provisioning Hireling (3/3) as those purple ingredient surpluses (and their creations) can sell at a nice profit.

Food Ingredients

Most foods (from green and blue recipes) can be made from 24 basic food ingredients found in barrels, baskets, crates, etc., where you can also occasionally find Decorative Wax which is used in furniture crafting. Rare recipe (purple and gold) foods also require Frost Mirriam, an exotic ingredient only acquired through daily writ rewards or hireling mails. Legendary (gold) food also requires Perfect Roe, obtained very rarely from filleting fish you've caught.

Apples	Corn	Garlic	Potato	Saltrice
Bananas	Fish	Greens	Poultry	Seasoning
Beets	Flour	Jazbay Grapes	Pumpkin	Small Game
Carrots	Frost Mirriam	Melon	Radish	Tomato
Cheese	Game	Millet	Red Meat	White Meat
There are some very special foods described later (Orzorga's) which require additional ingredients including some alchemy materials and Perfect Roe, which can only be obtained by filleting fish.

Drink Ingredients

Most drinks (from green and blue recipes) can be made from 24 basic drink ingredients found in barrels, baskets, crates, etc., where you can also occasionally find Decorative Wax which is used in furniture crafting. Rare (purple and gold) recipe drinks also require Bervez Juice, an exotic ingredient only acquired through daily writ rewards or hireling mails. Legendary (gold) drink also requires Perfect Roe, obtained very rarely from filleting fish you've caught.

Acai Berry	Comberry	Honey	Metheglin	Seaweed
Barley	Ginger	Isinglass	Mint	Surilie Grapes
Bervez Juice	Ginkgo	Jasmine	Rice	Wheat
Bittergreen	Ginseng	Lemon	Rose	Yeast
Coffee	Guarana	Lotus	Rye	Yerba Mate
There is also one very special drink described later (Psijic Ambrosia) which requires a uniquely special ingredient: Perfect Roe. Perfect Roe can only be gained by filleting fish that you've caught.

Leveling Provisioning

Common sources of inspiration boost include joining ESO+ which grants a 10% boost to inspiration gain or spending thirty (30) Champion Points in The Tower for a passive 20% boost to inspiration gain. However as these bonuses are not available to all players, they are not reflected in the data below which displays base values without any inspiration bonus.

Purple or blue recipes do not grant greater inspiration than green recipes, but often use more rare/expensive ingredients. So focus on green recipes to save ingredients unless you're crafting for your own usage.

With how plentiful ingredients are, the fastest way to level provisioning is simply to gather ingredients and recipes while questing, then craft at any cooking fire whatever green recipes you've learned for the highest food/drink level possible.

Daily Provisioning Writs

Daily writs provide a boost to inspiration upon delivery, replenish ingredients, and provide a recipe. While the inspiration boost from turning in the first 3 tiers of writs (which is all you can do until you've attained at least Provisioning Rank 40 anyhow) is minimal, the value in doing provisioning writs is not really in the inspiration, but rather in the acquisition of purple ingredients and a variety of recipes. Stop by the mages guild in the tier 1 city of your alliance as listed below and talk to Danel Telleno to become certified in Provisioning.

An alphabetical list of all 78 recipes used in the creation of writs follows. Each entry notes which alliance uses it and the recipe improvement level, so as to help you choose which recipes to learn or the best location when selling. The second tab is organized by writ level (note: Clockwork City added the ability to deliver to any writ location regardless of alliance or level).

Note: These recipes are being collected in the Guild Bank to be shared amongst guildies. Please donate if you are able.

Provisioning Your Characters

Quality affects the duration of effects; purple recipes are designed to last 2 hours compared to 30 minutes for green recipes. When crafting foods and drinks for player use, remember what each type of item does and select appropriately.

Orzorga's Recipes

You must have access to the Orsinium DLC to do these quests, or you might find the reward recipes in guild stores. All of these recipes and their unique benefits last for at least 2 hours (5/10/20 minutes more with 1/2/3 points in Gourmand).

Orzorga (located north of the Shatul wayshrine in Wrothgar) is the quest-giver for a series of quests which prepare for the King's feast. Orzorga's recipes are unique in that they blend the benefits normally found in food and drink.

The first quest, Kindred Spirits, rewards the blue recipe for Orzorga's Red Frothgar. Unlike other recipes, this recipe uses Clear Water (an alchemy mat) along with standard drink ingredients. It increases maximum health like bread or a meat dish and increases magicka recovery like a tea.

The second quest, A Healthy Choice, rewards the blue recipe for Orzorga's Triple Trifle Pocket. This recipe uses the most expensive alchemy mat, Columbine, and guts (yes, the fish bait), along with standard food ingredients. It increases maximum health like bread or a meat dish and increases stamina recovery like a tonic.

The third quest, Thicker Than Water, rewards the blue recipe for Orzorga's Blood Price Pie. This recipe uses Violet Coprinus (an alchemy material) and guts (yes, the fish bait) along with standard food ingredients. It increases maximum health like bread or a meat dish and increases health recovery like an alcoholic drink.

Orzorga's final quest, A Feast to Remember, rewards the gold recipe for Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch. This recipe increases maximum health and improves tri-stat recovery, but at the cost of rare/expensive ingredients (Perfect Roe, Frost Mirriam, and White Cap being among its ingredients, along with Tomato and Red Meat).

Other Recipes With Unique Benefits

Some other regions of Tamriel have recipes found no where else. A quest chain in Clockwork City's Outlaw Refuge for instance provides recipes for 3 new and unique provisioning items: Deregulated Mushroom Slime (a unique Health/Magicka recovery food), Spring-Loaded Infusion (a unique tristat drink), and Clockwork Citrus Fillet (a unique Health/Magicka food). Fishing in Artaeum (part of the Summerset expansion) can provide 2 new recipes: Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl (a Health/Magicka drink that somehow improves the chances of catching rare fish) and Artaeum Takeaway Broth (a unique Health/Stamina Drink).

Many festival recipes also provide unique combinations of effects, mixing the effects of food (resource pool) and drink (recovery) much like Orzorga's recipes but in other unique combinations.

Details are reflected in the chart above.

Ambrosias

Ambrosias are elixirs that boost your experience. Your passive provisioning skills count Ambrosia as a drink so you gain duration from the Connoisseur passive and the Brewer passive allows you to craft more than one at a time.

Consuming ambrosia reveals a special case when it comes to stacking provisioning benefits. You may drink this elixir without removing the benefit from your previously consumed food or drink and you may consume a drink or meal after the elixir and continue to receive the experience benefit.

Psijic Ambrosia provides a 50% bonus to all experience in the next 30/35/40/50 minutes (depending on skill points in Connoisseur). The recipe for Psijic Ambrosia is learned in fragments received by completing the Daily Provisioning Writs. Once you have each of the seven fragments you can create the recipe — or you can buy a copy of the recipe for approximately 50k-55k in guild stores.

The ingredients include Brevez Juice (obtained from writs or hireling), Frost Mirriam (obtained from writs or hireling), and Perfect Roe (obtained very rarely by filleting fish). I suggest not using these expensive ingredients without having 3 skill points in the Brewer skill (which makes each set of ingredients create four drinks instead of one).

Aetherial Ambrosia provides a 100% bonus to all experience in the next 30/35/40/50 minutes (depending on skill points in Connoisseur). The recipe and a required ingredient, Diminished Aetherial Dust, are purchased from Rolis Hlaalu with writ vouchers. The recipe requires you to mix a Psijic Ambrosia with a Diminished Aetherial Dust.

Mythic Aetherial Ambrosia provides a 150% bonus to all experience in the next 30/35/40/50 minutes (depending on skill points in Connoisseur). Using an Aetheric Cipher while a regular Recipe for Psijic Ambrosia is in your inventory converts the recipe into the recipe for Mythic Aetherial Ambrosia.

Once you've learned the recipe you can combine a unit of Aetherial Dust with a regular Psijic Ambrosia to boost its power to a Mythic Aetherial Ambrosia. The Aetherial Dusts and the Aetheric Cipher can be found within any alliance zone, Cyrodiil, or Coldharbour; it will not be found in DLC zones or Craglorn.