The cookbook that is demonstrated is titled Metropolitan CookBook written by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company from their head office in Ottawa. Upon initial investigation there is no indication about how the cookbook was sold and distributed to the Canadian public. From the front cover to the back cover, the book holds fifty-six pages of content which helps people in the kitchen. For example, recipes are present throughout the cookbook, and on the inside front face of the cookbook the company placed a convenient table of measurements and oven temperatures. The Table of Measures has a conversion table which is helpful in the kitchen, and the oven temperatures indicate at what temperature ovens should be set at, because in the recipes the temperature is not necessarily given in numbers, but in phrases of such as one extreme of slow meaning 250^O-325^OF, and the other extreme being very hot at 475^OF and over. Following the title page, the second page has the foreword information, and the third page contains the table of contents. Between page five to fifty-two, recipes are found and finally the index is located from page fifty-three to fifty-six.

When first handling the cookbook, one will notice how small and light it the cookbook is. With its dimensions measuring in at 19.5 x 13.5 cm, the cookbook is extremely practical to have in someone’s busy kitchen. The cookbook can easily be recognized in a kitchen of mess by the tiled blue squares within a grid of red lines, almost resembling a table cloth, or an argyle pattern. On the bottom right corner, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company – Canadian Head office – Ottawa is printed where one’s eye cannot miss. The book is still in great condition where it has endured more than seventy years of being in someone’s kitchen. Some stains of a dark substance appears over the front top left cover the cookbook, making it seem as the previous owner was in a typical Canadian household kitchen.