These are a few of my favourite blogs

It's sometimes surprising (to me, anyway) the blogs that get huge readerships, and those that have tiny (niche?) followings. My absolute favourite blog of the moment, Pomiane, has only one bloglines subscriber, and that's me. No idea why, great food, English and Italian ... perhaps it's the lack of pictures, but most of the best cookery books are unillustrated.

Another one I'm really enjoying at the moment is Slow Cook. It's written by an American who's given up a high-powered job in journalism to cook, grow food, and blog. He writes about all that, and also about wider food issues, environmental issues that affect the kitchen - it's a lively read, one I'm always pleased to see bold in my feed reader.

Not all my best blogs are about food - Mostly Macro comes under the heading of food for the soul ... wonderful photos of wildlife - moths, butterflies, birds, flowers, you name it, if it's wild and in his garden or neighbour, Dean photographs it.

Graham Rice, the garden writer, has recently started blogging about his life in England and the US. Transatlantic Plantsman is imbued with a deep knowledge of plants, and always interesting to read. One day I'm going to pluck up courage to ask him why I have such a lack of success with most of my sweet peas!


I thoroughly recommend all of these.