I'm adding Sunset magazine's One Block Diet blog to my food blogroll. According to the welcome, they are using their garden expertise to grow everything they need for a feast they plan to cook in their test kitchen "once all is ripe and ready." It's not clear when they expect that to be; the blog was started in June of last year.

I became interested in the blog when they started writing about raising chickens for the eggs—something I've thought about doing (as if I could talk Mr. Ann into agreeing to it).

Another food note is from Michael Pollan's latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. (Full disclosure: I haven't read the book; I found this in a summary of reviews of the book in the Jan. 18 issue of The Week magazine.) He claims (and I don't doubt him) "a mere four crops—corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat—account for two-thirds of the calories that American end up consuming." That statistic has some serious implications for food prices (as more and more of the corn crop goes to ethanol production) and for people trying to follow low glycemic index diets.

Pollan's advice is summarized as, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly greens."

(UPDATE 2/1/08: The February Sunset magazine has an interview with Pollan on the last page. There, his advice is "mostly plants" rather than "mostly greens." That makes more sense to me.)