A bowl of chunky mushroom barley soup used to be one of my fall favorites, but barley's off limits now that I'm gluten-free. In an effort to replicate the soup, I substituted buckwheat groats for the ...

Buckwheat needs no introduction. Its flour is commonly stirred into our pancake batter, used to make soba noodles, and often can be found in multigrain breads and crackers. Buckwheat groats, however, ...

What would you do with a one-pound bag of toasted buckwheat groats, a.k.a. kasha? If you’re like most Ashkenazi Jews, you’d probably cook up kasha varnishkes, the Jewish “soul food” side dish made of ...

Note: This is a traditional dish from the Piedmont region of Italy. Buckwheat groats can be found at select well-stocked markets and health food stores. Our recipes, your kitchen: If you try any of ...

Properties: A ¼-cup serving provides 6 grams of protein, 3 grams of fiber and 8% of your recommended daily value of iron. It also has higher levels of zinc, copper and manganese than other cereal ...

Long before there were farm wineries, breweries and micro-distilleries in the Finger Lakes, there was the Birkett Mills in Penn Yan, Yates County, which channeled water from the Keuka Lake Outlet for ...

No one wants to stand over a hot stove stirring oatmeal first thing in the morning during the summer, and Monday to Friday it’s hard to find the time to do so in the first place. Instead of resorting ...

In late July, I found myself standing in a field at dawn in the fertile Skagit Valley in Washington state. Gazing across a patchwork of test plots, each planted with a different variety of wheat, ...

Life in the kitchen can be a real grind -- and, in this case, that’s a good thing. By grinding your own whole-grain flour, you open the door to a new world of tastes and textures, with the added ...