Chapter 1 - Non-weapon Proficiencies
Healthy Cooking Non-weapon Proficiency
Must be a Halfling and already have Cooking, Healing and Herbalism proficiencies.
With the proper training the cook can create a stew that speeds healing. Those who learn Healthy Cooking may brew a stew in one hour that adds +1 to the healing provided by rest overnight. A successful proficiency check is needed for the benefit to be achieved. Failure of the check simply means the stew is wholesome and good but lacks the special healing powers.
When a Healthy Cooking stew is used as a material component part of a Cure Light or higher level healing spell the +1 bonus applies also to that spell. The bonus to spells is only for one spell, once per day.
The amount of stew that must be consumed for either application is two cups for a man-sized creature.
The secret of Healthy Cooking is known to most Halfling priests and must be learned as a pre-requisete to learning Medicinal Cooking. It is unheard of for a non-halfling to learn Healthy Cooking.
