11.   The lack of gluten, though, means that buckwheat flour, which has a slightly gritty texture, has limited use in baking.

12.   These Japanese noodles are made from buckwheat flour.

13.   To Russians, buckwheat flour is essential for blini, the raised pancakes that are served with caviar and sour cream at winter gatherings.

14.   Weed, whose water-powered mill is the second-largest US source of buckwheat flour, says he loves ve been steadily rising.

15.   The idea seems realistic, since Japan has pasta made from buckwheat flour, and there are soya vermicelli and rice spaghetti in other parts of Asia.