1.   The talented chef uses buckwheat soba noodles effectively.

2.   Americans never thought much about buckwheat noodles until Japanese food became fashionable.

3.   As the weather cools, Italian restaurants like Felidia on the East Side feature pizzoccheri, a casserole made with flat Italian buckwheat noodles.

4.   A similar buckwheat noodle, naeng myun, is used in Korean soups.

5.   It features slender buckwheat noodles in an icy beef broth with a kaleidoscopic assortment of sliced beef, pickled cucumbers, hard cooked eggs, Asian pear and radish.

6.   Italians have buckwheat noodles, too, called pizzoccheri.

7.   Its owner, Jacques Petit, learned to make the buckwheat noodles in Japan.

8.   She was eating a bowl of soba, eight-inch-long buckwheat noodles in a fish broth.

9.   The Nagano folks know how to run a Buddhist temple, grow apples and apricots, and make buckwheat noodles.

10.   The pride of the house is soba, the notoriously difficult-to-make buckwheat noodles.