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In a message dated 10/3/03 9:14:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

liberty@... writes:

> That was hilarious! I've got to share it with my sister,

> she's doing Atkins (the diet that is, not the guy).

That's good, considering his current membership among the living impaired.

Chris

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> >about soba (buckwheat noodles), I didn't realise they were

> >originally made with buckwheat and rice flour. now they are made

> >with buckwheat and wheat flour. I don't think 100% buckwheat

> >noodles are possible (correct me if I'm wrong).

> >

>

> I don't know -- they seem to be able to make noodles out of

anything.

> Like yams. Yam noodles are great, but how do you get noodles

> out of a yam, I ask you? I've heard the noodles used to be pure

> buckwheat, and I've seen them once or twice.

>

> -- Heidi

You're right, I did a search and found 100% buckwheat noodles but we

can't seem to get them here in Australia (was looking for them at

the health food shop yesterday and they all contained wheat).

Actually our friends brought 100% buckwheat flour when they came to

visit from Japan and we made soba noodles together. But they used

wheat flour on the board that it was rolled on. DH seems to think

that's important to the rolling process. I'm sure other flours would

be possible to use. We've still got a packet of the flour so I

might give it a go!

According to DH, buckwheat existed in Japan 2500 yrs ago, wheat came

to Japan 800AD (1200-ish yrs ago). He says the most common

buckwheat noodles are called Nihachisoba ( " two eight soba " ) which

are 20% wheat, 80% buckwheat. Then what they call Inakasoba

(countryside soba) have more buckwheat but still contain wheat.

So I think they've been eating wheat in the form of noodles for a

long time as have the Chinese. In Summer, people eat loads of cold

somen or udon noodles made from white wheat flour. There are heaps

and heaps of people with skin conditions there (including my DH),

from dry itchy skin like him, to really bad eczema/dermatitis.

Atopic Dermatitis (what they call " atopi " ) is much more common there

than in the west, from my experience. I always thought it was the

additives in the food or the dioxins from all the rubbish burning,

but now I'm wondering if it's also a wheat reaction and possibly

even dairy.