Buckwheat grows widely in Brittany as well and is used in the region's galettes, called jalet, which is where this dish originated.

* Buckwheat flour is used as an ingredient in many pancakes in the United States.

Buckwheat flour is also used to make crêpes bretonnes in Brittany.

* Buckwheat porridge, made of buckwheat in butter, is eaten by many people in Russia, with yoghurt more common in the Caucasus.

Buckwheat is documented in Europe in the Balkans by at least the Middle Neolithic ( circa 4000 BC ).

Buckwheat is a short season crop that does well on low-fertility or acidic soils, but the soil must be well drained.

Buckwheat is sometimes used as a green manure, as a plant for erosion control, or as wildlife cover and feed.

Buckwheat is raised for grain where a short season is available, either because it is used as a second crop in the season, or because the climate is limiting.

The evidence is a single study of Buckwheat honey given before bedtime which provided better cough relief at night and improved sleep difficulty in children more than no treatment or dextromethorphan based over-the-counter cough medicine.

It is held each June and has featured national acts like Taj Mahal, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Buckwheat Zydeco, and Eric Lindell.

The main stage at the 2006 festival ; Buckwheat Zydeco is playing.

Buckwheat is untangled by the captain of the river boat who hands him over to his master and tells him to keep an eye on that little pickaninny.

Wild Buckwheat is an English name that has been used for the following species:

Stymie is the only Our Ganger who both replaced one of the original gang members ( Allen " Farina " Hoskins ) and was in turn replaced by one who would stay on until the series disbanded, Billie " Buckwheat " Thomas.

Alfalfa is taken off duty of guarding the go-cart, so Porky and Buckwheat are assigned to do so instead.

", though it is commonly attributed to Buckwheat.

Lee, McFarland, and Our Gang co-stars Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer, Billie " Buckwheat " Thomas, and Darla Hood constituted what is today the most familiar incarnation of Our Gang.

In 1990, the ABC newsmagazine 20 / 20 aired a segment purporting to be an interview with Buckwheat, now a grocery bagger in Arizona.

Although the character he played was often the subject of controversy in later years for containing elements of the " pickaninny " stereotype, Thomas always defended his work in the series, pointing out that Buckwheat and the rest of the black Our Gang kids were treated as equals to the white kids in the series.

Buckwheat can be a reliable cover crop in summer to fit a small slot of warm season for establishment.

* Pineland Buckwheat, a common name for Eriogonum molestum

William " Billie " Thomas, Jr. ( March 12, 1931 – October 10, 1980 ) was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang ( Little Rascals ) short films from 1934 until the series ' end in 1944.

The " Buckwheat " and " Porky " characters both became known for their collective garbled dialogue, in particular their catchphrase, " O-tay!

By the next week, 20 / 20 had learned of their error ( George " Spanky " McFarland personally contacted the media following the broadcast ), that the true Buckwheat had been dead for 10 years, and admitted their mistake on-air.

In 2007, Louisiana State Representative Carla Dartez, a Democrat, came under fire from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) for calling one of her female volunteers " Buckwheat.

The boys quickly try to put the fire out ( Buckwheat and Porky, were sent to call the fire department, but neither one of them knew the number for 9-1-1, so the club did not get any professional help from fire-fighters ).

In order to win her back, Alfalfa pretends to write Darla a hate note but really writes her a love note for Porky and Buckwheat to deliver to her.

However, Porky and Buckwheat manage to raise $ 500 by putting up an " Admisshun $ 3 " sign at the free talent show, but the boys ' schoolteacher Miss Crabtree finds out soon and scolds them for tricking people.

However, Spanky suggests using the money Porky and Buckwheat raised as prize money for the go-cart race, which their teacher agrees to.

The score for the film was orchestrated by Ennio Morricone in conjunction with the New York Philharmonic, while songs written by musical artists Van Halen and Buckwheat Zydeco, were used in-between dialogue shots in the film.

Chenier continued recording for more than thirty years, releasing over a hundred albums and paving the way for later stars like Boozoo Chavis and Buckwheat Zydeco.

Directed by Gordon Douglas ( who coincidently has a walk-on as a delivery boy in Teacher's Pet ), and starring the mid / late 1930s Our Gang line-up of Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Darla, and Porky, Bored of Education won the 1937 Academy Award for Short Subjects ( One-Reel ).

He had the exclusive distinction of being with the gang from " Miss Crabtree " talkies of the early 1930s, through the mid-thirties transitional period, up until the era of the more familiar group of Spanky, Alfalfa, and Buckwheat, who would ultimately replace Stymie in 1935.

Norman " Chubby " Chaney ( who replaced Joe Cobb ), Matthew " Stymie " Beard ( who replaced Allen " Farina " Hoskins ) and Billie " Buckwheat " Thomas ( who replaced Stymie ) all won contests to become members of the gang.

They lose the note on the way to Darla's house but Buckwheat remembers what Alfalfa told them the note " said " and recites to Darla, who hates Alfalfa even more.

Both Fugianna and Buckwheat were daughters of Josephine.

Buckwheat was introduced as a crop suitable to impoverished soils and buckwheat pancakes were known in other regions where this crop was cultivated, such as Limousin or Auvergne.

The four African-American child actors who held main-character roles in the series were Ernie " Sunshine Sammy " Morrison, Allen " Farina " Hoskins, Matthew " Stymie " Beard and Billie " Buckwheat " Thomas.

Despite the change in the Buckwheat character's gender, Billie Thomas's androgynous costuming was not changed until his appearance as a runaway slave in the 1936 Our Gang feature film General Spanky.

The fictional killer of Buckwheat in 1983 episodes of Saturday Night Live, John David Stutts, was reported to be from Lima, Ohio.

The Trunk 30 road named the " Cabot Trail " loops from Exit 7 on Nova Scotia Highway 105 at Buckwheat Corner to Exit 11 on Highway 105 at South Haven.

All Ragdolls are descended from Baker's cats through matings of Daddy Warbucks to Fugianna and Buckwheat.

After Stymie's departure from the series later in 1935, the Buckwheat character slowly morphed into a boy, first referred to definitively as a " he " in 1936's The Pinch Singer.

* The scene in which Buckwheat and Porky are fishing and get their fishing poles caught onto each other originates from a scene in the 1943 Our Gang short Three Smart Guys with Buckwheat, Froggy, and Mickey.

Alfalfa sending Buckwheat and Porky to deliver a love note to Darla was borrowed from Mail and Female.

*** In this bonus feature, someone in the audience requested Eddie's Buckwheat impression from Saturday Night Live.

Furthermore, the ' taboo ' of white and black actors kissing had already been broken by child actor Buckwheat from the The Little Rascals ( originally the Our Gang film series ) and NBC itself: Nancy Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. kissed in the 1967 TV special Movin ' With Nancy ( though on British television the event had happened earlier in a 1964 episode of a prime-time hospital soap Emergency – Ward 10 ).

Other popular elements in these mid-to-late 1930s shorts include the " He-Man Woman Haters Club " from Hearts Are Thumps and Mail and Female ( both 1937 ), the Laurel and Hardy-ish interaction between Alfalfa and Spanky, and the comic tag-along team of Porky and Buckwheat.