"Can I bring food with me"
no lol go on the several day journey without any food. No hunting either. What a silly question, author is trying too hard to shoe in the gimmick power there.
And the partner (?) arrives... and he'll be not getting converted into a girl it seems... why isn't this man concerned with learning the way of the sword in this world??
This whole thing feels sort of like maining as a cook in an MMO. I would have considered trying such a thing in FFXIV if you didn't actually need to play the main story quest lines to be able to travel to any new areas. Seems like sort of a dick move to make all the crafting and gathering professions pretty capable of wandering the lands relatively worry free... but gatekeep them with mandatory combat quests.