Recipes of Newfoundland Dishes was written and published by Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1971. MUN, as it is referred to, was founded on September 15, 1925 as a memorial to the Newfoundland soldiers who died in the First World War. The university was later adapted to include the memories of the brave men who fought and died during the Second World War. Originally starting with only five faculty members and fifty five full-time students and College status, the Memorial University of Newfoundland is still the only university in the province, and is now the largest university in the Atlantic Canada region, with over 15,000 students. There is a plaque mounted In the Arts and Administration Building on their St. John’s Campus reading “This University was raised by the People of Newfoundland as a Memorial to the fallen in the Great Wars 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, that in freedom of learning their cause and sacrifice may not be forgotten.” When Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949, one of the first acts that the Newfoundland Legislature passed was to officially elevate Memorial to legitimate university status. In 1971, Memorial University hosted the Learned Societies Meetings, which is a yearly congregation of elites and experts from different fields in the Social Sciences and Humanities as they discuss and exchange changes, innovations, and ideas in their respective fields. This book was most likely created as supplementary material for the conference’s attendees: a way for them to learn a little bit more about Newfoundland and the dishes traditionally enjoyed by the inhabitants of the island.