Given that food on ships is so important to morale (good food=loyal crew & good recruits, Bad enough food= mutiny), I thought a ship galley could be a way to add a side activity. The pet vendors all seem to sell the same food, no matter where they are. Perhaps they could sell snack recipes for the world the vendor is in. Then we could cook it up in our ship's galley, after obtaining ingredients. It would be nice for those pets with more unusual taste in food. Maybe we could cook up other things too?
Any thoughts on activities that would fit with a galley theme?

Clever idea except...

It would work the opposite for your Kurga companions.

A lot of pets love Skull Island sides and desserts, but I find it harder to feed pets their favorite dishes when they love things like Mooshu main dishes, for example. Snacks like that rarely seem to show up, even in pet wrangling. It takes a lot longer to get those ones to full power when feeding them merely liked snacks. It'd be nice to be able to cook up some food for the fussy pets.
Do you think doubloons should be able to be cooked up? Since we can only feed pets when they finish training, it might be easier to fit Chrissy's idea in with doubloons. Pet doubloons maybe? I was trying to think of something that would not be exactly the same as Wizard crafting, but be a similar activity for players. It would have to be something that has a reward that would make it worth the time pirates would put in. What would make this activity a good fit for Pirate, without being Wizard crafting, in a cauldron? I like the idea of a galley side activity, but it needs brainstorming. Should we be fighting batacuda for ingredients? Finding seaweed floating in the skyways? Something else? Would we need to get our ingredients between the worlds? (lovely weird areas that we don't visit often enough, but pass through). What should the rewards be? Do we need a cook? Would crew tasks be involved?