It just means that we have to not only come up with combinations, but draw tons of new food items and keep up with it.

I love the idea of crafting / making your own items, it's just really a lot of upkeep for us. I think it'd be really fun to make a recipe type system (where instead of guessing, you can only make items if you've earned the recipe from an achievement / battle / site event) and update it sort of frequently.

Oh yeah, it'd be like unlocked hair. You'd unlock a recipe and it'd go into your book, you wouldn't be able to sell that to other users. You'd be able to sell the item you could make, though ;).