1.   A small addition of buckwheat flour makes the difference.

2.   Buckwheat flour can be incorporated with ground nuts in a wheat-free torte, or used with some wheat flour to make a pie crust.

3.   Buckwheat flour has a low gluten content, so it makes much thinner and more delicate mixture than, say, an American pancake batter.

4.   Elsewhere in northern Italy, coarse buckwheat flour is added to cornmeal for polenta served with a cheese sauce.

5.   I was agreeably surprised by this simple combination of buckwheat flour, cream, egg whites, leavening, salt and sugar.

6.   In hardscrabble mountainous parts of northern Italy, like the Valtellina area in Lombardy, dark buckwheat flour is still used to make pasta called pizzoccheri.

7.   It also refers to Breton-style crepes made with buckwheat flour.

8.   Pure buckwheat flour is the palest ecru.

9.   Soba are Japanese noodles that are gray-brown because they are made partly of buckwheat flour.

10.   Tadashi Ono at Sono makes his with buckwheat flour, giving them the flavor of Japanese soba noodles.