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I grew up playing a lot of Harvest Moon and participating in GaiaOnline forums. "Buckwheat noodles" would always make an appearance around the new year in each, and, growing up in Appalachia as a white descendent of western European immigrants, I didn't know what the deal was. Nor did I think to learn more at the time. The memory did, however, stick, and upon visiting an international market a week ago, I saw the word buckwheat on a package of fresh folded and powdered brown noodles and made a total an impulse purchase based entirely on curiosity and...nostalgia?
(That doesn't seem like the best word to use here since I only ever experienced it as a concept, but, whatever)
Anyway, I made some following this recipe and made the bonito broth to go with it:
It was delightful. For those of you who don't know: we learned that toshikoshi soba (年越し蕎麦) is consumed on New Year's Eve to break free from the past and adopt some of the strength and resilience of the buckwheat crop, which has quite a role in the history of agriculture. I will leave you to hit the search engine and find out more about that if you're interested. In the meantime, do you have any experiences or insight on buckwheat/soba recipes or their contextual significance? Feel free to comment.
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Cowarun
That's honestly really neat how foods can have such impact on our everything. All I really knew buckwheat for was in tea. ngl for me, that makes me wonder just how many other foods have such positive weight to them that I'd never know.
Also kinda reminds me of all the foods I only heard of from games, a lot of those probably have some kinda significance too.
I had no idea buckwheat can be found in tea. A colleague also told me about buckwheat pancakes being a thing too. We humans love to eat everything possible in every way.
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