I think Awesome Stew should be "Nerfed" so to speak.
I think it deters diversity.
Here's how:
1) Master Chef 2, and indeed all of the cooking skills as a set, are at a low time cost to learn, comparatively to the other skill sets. So people starting out learn these first so they can have a some skills under their belt. It's quick and easy compared to AK or Gardening or Mining or Tinkering.
2) Awesome Stew provides a high return for it's creation. Good xp and lots of currents, 160 if sold in Cerbarkul. Also due to the high value, an excellent donation item.
These provide a very quick level gain (xp due to donation) and money gain early on for new players, that's good, but it becomes a habit, since it is so lucrative there is no need to diversify.
This, in my opinion, has lead to many streets being all Bean Trees and filled with pigs, two of the main ingredients of Awesome stew. This is making for a more antagonistic game play environment.
Please do something to curb the Awesome Stew epidemic plaguing our community.
Perhaps a limit on the number of stews that can be made per day.