The potato has been a mainstay of home cooking the world over for centuries but a new cookbook launched by the United Nations shows there's more to the humble spud than just chips, crisps or mash. In Italy they stuff them with mascarpone, in Germany they turn them into sausages and in Moldova they're blended into soup with ...

·See the work online·All articles in this series Artist: John White sailed to the new world with Sir Walter Raleigh as an artist and surveyor. He went on Raleigh's 1585 voyage to found a colony at Roanoke, Virginia, and the first publication of his drawings in 1590 states that he was "sent thither speciallye ...

Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall (Galore Park Publishing Ltd,

Thank goodness. It gallops from the Romans to the Boer war, bringing each epoch to life in simple English. Henry V's enemy, the King of France, is described as 'mad' -- very refreshing, you'll agree. It reads like the thriller it is, and the illustrations are glorious. Just ...

Just as no man is a hero to his valet, no mother-in-law is a heroine to her son-in-law. Except mine, that is. Miloska Nott (bullet dodger, charity fundraiser, daffodil farmer) is a remarkable woman. In 1992 she started the Fund for Refugees in Slovenia of which I am now a trustee. In its typically confusing Balkan way, it now helps ...