So as I'm leveling up cooking I'm focusing on getting the different specific meats and cursing my bad luck at ending up with so much chilled meat - actually got so much on my main that I could hook up all four alts to do the 12 meat cooking daily (yup - burning 60 a day thanks to one toon's gathering).
Now that I'm 80 though I've found that the drops have turned around on me - I kill a critter and I get the named meat that critter drops while I'm scrounging for chilled meat.
Sigh - irony. >_<
So word of warning - as you're leveling hold onto the crap - you'll need it later!