Food history helps us grasp nutrition, culture, economics, food production, environmental and sociological impacts on food. The historical cookbook “Weight Watchers 1986 Engagement Calendar”, was made to encourage people around the time of 1986 to get their eating habits in check while achieving their physique goals. The Weight Watchers Cookbook is extremely popular worldwide, people all over the world saw fast acting results. The cookbook is friendly to everyone, there is no age or gender that it is specific toward. The cookbook provides an engagement calendar, a daily calendar, recipes to take on the go and weekly meal plan recipes. Right away I noticed there were no images only menus, the engagement calendars and food dairies. The cookbook offers low-calorie options which would be ideal for weight loss or maintain weight. The cookbooks were made to reduce calories in food and snacks, people were shocked with the results and wanted more. The Weight Watchers logo was on labels in all 50 states and 11 countries, over 17 million pounds were lost around the world, helping 50 million people lose weight. This was only the beginning, doctors and new food plans were involved to reflect the latest nutritional research.