The Big Apple is a good place for reinvention, and the Swiss poet Frédéric-Louis Sauser had reason for a restart here in the spring of 1912. At 25 years old he’d washed up in New York Harbor, nearly penniless after trying his luck in Russia and Brazil. He couldn’t vanquish his writer’s block, and he could barely feed himself; he’d had a gig playing piano at a nickelodeon, but it didn’t last. On April 7, 1912 — Easter Sunday, when
The global weight-loss market is worth about £250billion, with much of its profitability hinging on calorie counts and booming sales of diet food and drinks. But when you set the runaway success of this sector against the world’s ever-rising obesity levels, it’s obvious something isn’t working.
I have been an epidemiologist for 30 years, studying how and why diseases occur in different groups of people, and for the past decade I have been leading teams at the cutting edge of
Most of us know so little about what we put on our plates. Faced with an amazing diversity of foods from all around the world, we tend to return to the same old staples and the same tired fruit and veg choices without realising that this is not good for our health or good for the planet.
The aim of my new book, Food For Life, serialised exclusively in the Mail and in tomorrow’s The Mail on Sunday, is to
You’re invited on a voyage across every continent to all corners of the world in search of the lost, disappearing and vanished.
Your guide is author and cultural commentator Travis Elborough, who in Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds As They Were And As They Are Today (Aurum Press) – with the help of fascinating maps by Martin Brown – investigates not just how the world appears today, but how it once looked. Elborough charts natural wonders that are
