Once upon a time there was a fictional homemaker named Edith Adams, who was actually a collection of food editors at the Vancouver Sun between 1924 and 1999. The in-house testing kitchen was named Edith Adams' Cottage where thousands of recipes were developed and tinkered with over the decades.  Edith even had her own radio show on CKMO. Marianne Linnell was perhaps the best known of the editors, and huge crowds would turn out at her public appearances. The BC Food History blog has more HERE. The University of the Fraser Valley holds an excellent array of cookbooks in its Heritage Special Collections  -- some 200 of them have been digitized. The Edith Adams Christmas Baking cookbook is available HERE. We've thumbed the pages to feature a few recipes from the book below. It's almost like going to Grandma's house.   Would you believe smoked liver spread? Or corned beef/tongue?   [...]