i can't find any that will have the option to send them to CICI or that I have the food for i have the novice cookbook and have all the meals in it but none of them work
idk the exact time when you get them but if you keep progressing you should get them. I don’t think you need all of them to complete cici’s story but it helps since you have access to more recipes. For some of the images it took me several in game days of looking to find the people that for the description