While camping, you can cook by consuming cooking ingredients marked with the Cooking icon. Succeed to restore HP and MP for your party, and gain a variety of benefits. Should you fail, only your proficiency will increase.
< Increasing Mastery >
Each time you cook a dish, your proficiency in that dish will increase, raising your success rate. Pairing up a chef with a dish changes their proficiency, so make sure you ask them to make a dish that they are good at.
The special effects from Camp cooking will only take effect in "Symphony: Crown of the Pale Dawn" areas. When Cooking effects are active a cooking effect icon will appear on the mini-map.
Special effects are limited either by battle count or time. Effects that are limited by battle count will tick down whether you win, lose, or flee from a battle.
< Learning More Recipes >
By making friends with "Tales of" series characters, they may decide to teach you recipes. Try talking to people at Camp about getting a new recipes. You also might unlock new recipes by successfully cooking specific dishes many times.