When it comes to Monday night dinners, the simpler the better I say. Instead of toiling over a complicated dish, I'd rather kick back and let boldly flavored ingredients do the heavy lifting for me.

Planning to carbo load for a strenuous session of watching the Winter Olympics? This recipe for buckwheat soba noodles and vegetables with tofu peanut sauce is just right. It starts out with an exotic ...

Soba noodles are originally from Japan, where the word "soba" refers to buckwheat. Soba noodles are essentially thin noodles that are made from buckwheat flour, or a combination of buckwheat and ...

Reporting from Tokyo and Los Angeles -- At Akila Inouye’s Tsukiji Soba Academy in Tokyo, a specially made wooden cabinet has 108 small cubbyholes, each containing a scroll of thick brown or green ...

Japanese soba noodles are delicious — and as an added bonus, they have fewer calories and carbs than white-flour spaghetti noodles. Chef and restaurateur Geoffrey Zakarian knows this, so he uses soba ...

Here in Japan, the buckwheat noodles known as soba are a staple. Nowhere more so than in the mountains of the southern island of Shikoku. The soil there is poor. Buckwheat is one of the few crops that ...

Traditional Japanese cuisine, known as washoku, is now an Intangible Cultural Heritage, according to the United Nations. Tofu, mochi and miso are a few examples, but it's the buckwheat noodle, or soba ...

“Buckwheat and basil actually work really well together,” Bill Kim says about this unlikely match-up of Japanese and Mediterranean flavors. This chunky salad has a great mix of textures, too: velvety ...