It is noted that Frederick F. Tisdall is the creator of this cookbook and the contents are based on an address he gave to the Canadian Life Insurance Officers' Association. Tisdall was born in 1893 in Clinton, Ontario, and studied medicine at the University of Toronto. The cookbook includes biographical information on Tisdall and introduces him as a Doctor of Medicine (M.D), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (F.R.C.P.), and a Chairman of the Committee on Nutrition, Canadian Medical Association, Director of Nutritional Research Laboratories, Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Paediatrics, and the University of Toronto. Tisdall primarily published academic articles, authoring more than 125 scientific studies, most of which were on the subject of nutrition. Tisdall is also famous for his contributions to the creation of the infant cereal, Pablum, at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Pablum helped to ensure that children were consuming enough vitamin D in their diets in the hopes of preventing the childhood disease of rickets. In 1942, Tisdall approved and directed unethical nutritional experiments that were performed on Indigenous children, causing untold amounts of suffering and even the deaths of some children. The purpose of this experiment was to gain new information about improving the health of Indigenous people so the assimilation process could be expedited. It is important to recognize that though Tisdall accomplished many feats during his career, he also participated in this harmful and colonialist practice that targeted Indigenous children's bodies.