How to craft the cooking table/station?
First, craft a pot at the iron crafting table. Next, craft a cooking table with it (should be in the iron crafting table too).
In the new updates, crafting stations are at the very top, hard to miss them.
In case you do not have an iron crafting table, you will need to hand-craft a wooden crafting table and a furnace. Smelt iron in the furnace, take it to the wooden crafting table, and make an iron crafting table.
Wood and iron crafting tables are the backbone of your industry, you should get them early. And the furnace is the engine of your industry, you'll need it for sure. Fortunately, this is not the kind of game where you need a battery of furnaces running in parallel to smelt all your ore.