I placed several restaurants in my save with dishes from different cultures and just put the corresponding meals on the menu. I already have an Asian restaurant and am going to place a Mexican and Indian too. I think it's a faster way to learn the recipes than just traveling to the city all the time. You also never know if there's actually a vendor at the stalls or they are bugged at the edge of the neighborhood again.

"Chazzzy;c-16617835" wrote:I recommend going to that park in San Myshuno. It has like 4 food stalls. You can learn the majority if not all of the recipes in one visit if you’re willing to fatten your Sim up lolIf I don’t feel like doing that, I also have a mod that makes it so I can learn all of the recipes by reading one new book. B-but that's cheating! D:

"Huiiie_07;d-944837" wrote:I placed several restaurants in my save with dishes from different cultures and just put the corresponding meals on the menu. I already have an Asian restaurant and am going to place a Mexican and Indian too. I think it's a faster way to learn the recipes than just traveling to the city all the time. You also never know if there's actually a vendor at the stalls or they are bugged at the edge of the neighborhood again. That's a good idea, but would it be quicker? Every time my Sims go out to eat, the meal takes about 7 hours to get through. My Sims can scarfe down three or more servings at a food booth in the same amount of time.Slightly off topic: is there a way to see what recipes my Sim has learned without attempting to cook?

Or just place all the stands somewhere, for example in a park.

I think my teen really wanted to get a taste of the food from the stalls she autonomously left the house around 4-5am to the food stall across the house and it was closed. She stood there and the second she left it opened :D https://imgur.com/ysn8g7U.jpghttps://imgur.com/mGkUlCC.jpg

To find out what you've learned you can pretend to cook something to get the menu and then see what's on it.

An easy way to learn the City Living recipes...

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BayouGir1
8 years ago
I made a park and just had my sim hire the vendors to get it over with. I just kept a handful of benches for the sim and vendors to nap on while I got it done.

Then I had to move my sim to a new save, and all of the recipes she had learned were lost. The prospect of having to learn the recipes all over again makes me not care about them anymore. But it was doable.
Wndblwz
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
LittleMsSam also made a mod the makes the vendor hiring cost-free: https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/175407521658/free-staff-and-no-phone-call-animation-for
TheRealTink
8 years ago
"ldmarko;c-16619508" wrote:
I send the whole family to the spice festival, which usually has a wide variety of food to choose from, and have them each order a different dish. Then those old enough to cook take turns making their dish at home & soon the whole family knows them, and passes them on to their children.

That's what I do too.
Micheee7
6 years ago
"Huiiie_07;c-16619121" wrote:
"DoloresGrey;c-16619027" wrote:
Or just place all the stands somewhere, for example in a park.

This has the downside that you have to pay for a vendor every time you visit the lot again, atleast it was like this the last time I've tried.

That's true but you could also cheat for money ig
Crazyfrsims
6 years ago
I feel like the food stands can sense us and they close every time you get near them with intentions of buying something.

One thing I have done is to create a community lot and then place the stands there but I found it too easy so I didn't actually go through with learning all them. It's no fun learning for the sake of learning in this case. I would miss the hustle even if I could cook all those incredbile recipes.

@Huiiie_07 that's an incredible trick, I never thought about using the restaurants as a learning tool like that! It would definitely make things easier for me, I never did manage to learn them all.

Have you guys ever successfully learnt them all? Also, have you ever killed someone with your pufferfish nigiri?
popstarissa
6 years ago
"MartaxSofia;c-17353688" wrote:
I feel like the food stands can sense us and they close every time you get near them with intentions of buying something

Bwahahaha! I do sometimes feel like the vendors are trolling me ??
therealtacomama
Rising Veteran
6 years ago
Do ya'll make it a point to learn the recipes every save? I play legacy families and that just seems... daunting
Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I did it a couple of times. It takes diligence, and a good chart of when they appear and where. :)

After a few times, I just stopped and made a mod that gives all the recipes to the active sim. A cheat command basically. When I get a sim to level 10 cooking and gourmet cooking using normal methods, I use the cheat to give them all the CL recipes. I use it as a "reward" for getting to the highest cooking levels.

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