For sheer volume of words produced, it’s hard to beat Ambrose Heath. A newspaper columnist, Heath wrote (and wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote) about comestibles. And in an admirable act of recycling, he turned his many columns into books. He authored Good Food in 1932 and More Good Food in 1933. By the end of 1939, he had cranked out some 20 books more, among them Good Savouries, Good Potato Dishes, Good Soups, Good Sweets, Good Dishes from Tinned Foods, and (the reason I have been reading the groaning shelves born of Heath’s fecund pen) Good Drinks.