Note: Buckwheat kernels (sometimes called kasha) can be found at well-stocked grocery stores, cooking stores and health food markets. For a variation, fold in 2 tablespoons roasted cocoa nibs instead ...

We’ve all learned to read the labels on food products displayed in supermarkets to discover the product’s nutrition profile. Sometimes, though, there’s more to learn from the messages imprinted on the ...

Poor, perplexed buckwheat. It’s not buck, it’s not wheat, and though it hangs out with whole grains, it’s really a fruit, kin to rhubarb. Buckwheat came to the New World with the Dutch, who called it ...

Here in Japan, the buckwheat noodles known as soba are a staple. Nowhere more so than in the mountains of the southern island of Shikoku. The soil there is poor. Buckwheat is one of the few crops that ...

Buckwheat is a curious and misunderstood food. It’s not a grain, but is treated like one. It’s actually a shrub, related to rhubarb, and its seeds or kernels are what get ground into flour. Buckwheat ...

When I baked in a restaurant, one day someone gave us a flat metal instrument called the Wacker. It was basically a shovel-shaped tool normally used for scooping ice cream, but the slogan on the ...

With all the hype about vegetarian and gluten-free diets, it is surprising there isn’t more discussion about buckwheat, a grain substitute that, despite its name, is naturally gluten-free. Buckwheat ...