This cookbook is the production of Litton Systems Inc., meaning that it is likely that no single author was responsible for the book. It is likely that the cookbook was made possible either by company research or collaboration of employees to contribute various recipes. Introducing their first microwave in 1972, Litton had spent almost ten years in the microwave business at the time of this cookbook’s publishing. In the cookbook, an advertisement for LittonWare products shows that a primary objective in creating the cookbook was to increase sales of Litton microwave products, making this cookbook very commercially oriented. Litton was a large conglomerate in the years leading up to the cookbook, owning companies like Stouffers. They were also a major player in the aerospace and defence industries, even supplying the US Navy. Moving into the 80s (the period of this cookbook), however, Litton took major hits to their business and largely shifted back towards the defence industry, becoming a somewhat troubled company. In the year 2000, Litton was bought by the Northrop Grumman Corporation and merged into their business, ending Litton’s dominance in American industry. Overall, Litton was an integral part of early consumer microwave development, but their popularity and profitability quickly dropped off. This meant that this microwave cookbook was one of the last that they would ever produce (the final microwave cookbook by Litton appears to have been published in 1982).