No, you'd be an amateur chef. In FFXI, you start off being able to do some recipes but will fail every time at others. Leveling up your crafting in that game was extremely expensive and time consuming (in the majority of crafts, anyway). Crafters will have levels to go up, too, so yeah.

I'll probably aim to be a Marauder, Pugilist, Miner and Blacksmith in the early days of the game.