The olive oil is from southern Texas, the mustard greens from land that Brock helps farm, the recipes drawn from his collection of historical diaries and cookbooks.
The Diaries of Charles Greville edited by Edward Pearce 368pp, Pimlico, £18.99 Historical diaries, unless they happen to be written by Samuel Pepys, often turn out to be excruciating exercises in literary self-pleasuring or, worse still, dull lists of meetings with people whose identities you can never quite be bothered to learn.
It has been a decade in the making, during which time she has read countless historical documents, diaries and rare books on forestry.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk.Drawing on interviews, historical documents, diaries and letters, as well as his own family story, Ari Shavit, a Tel Aviv newspaper columnist mines four generations of history to tease out the conflicts and contradictions in his controversial homeland.
His patchwork historical novels incorporate diaries, letters, ship captains' logbooks and the like, and present anomalous characters who defy received racial categories.
The key players in the pursuit of Everest were plucked from a generation devastated by the horrors of World War I, horrors the author explores through historical documents and diaries in wonkish, sometimes lurid, detail.
A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
Such battlefields are unique, notes Dr Saunders, because they provide an opportunity to perform archaeological investigations within the context of an abundance of historical documents personal letters, diaries, maps, photographs and military records.
One of promising data source for this purpose is meteorological information in historical documents including diaries.
He first began investigating this phenomenon when he noticed the use of the terms "first sleep" and "second sleep" in a number of historical documents, including diaries, medical records and court documents.
