My friend got married and went to live in the Czech Republic. She told me that there is a shelf crammed with all sorts of products, except for buckwheat. Czechs are very fond of various sweets and sweep off the shelves everything connected with them. She also complained that she could not cook a normal soup (not all products are available for this). But in the range of seafood and overseas delicacies.
She made friends with a married couple and have decided to clarify them, why in the Czech Republic is nowhere buckwheat. She could not even really explain what kind of cereal (they never saw her). Then Olga decided to show the rump in the picture from the Internet.
Buckwheat - is cereals, which occupies a special place in Russian cuisine (especially during Lent time). It is inexpensive and tasty, so her and love. In the USSR, buckwheat swept from the shelves after the first meal. Each time the economic problems in the country, people stocked up matches, salt, flour and buckwheat. It actively cultivated during the war and after it, so people are accustomed to the fact that it is inexpensive, but useful and tasty product.
In the 80 years of this cereal even gave out coupons for diabetics - as told to me by my grandmother. In Siberia, in those days, this was a great shortage of cereals. My grandmother remembers when received and forwarded to the relatives of buckwheat in other regions of our country. In the 90s, even in Moscow, it was difficult to buy. But now it inundated the shelves even in the smallest rural stores.
Value and the useful properties of this cereal are undeniable: It is rich in iron, light carbohydrates and it has a positive effect on the brain.
Why is a buckwheat nobody heard in the Czech Republic?
Firstly, a lot depends on the soil. In Europe, buckwheat is not growing, and farmers do not grow it artificially in a special soil. Secondly, Europeans used the cereal agriculture as a food product.
These two reasons have influenced the fact that buckwheat somehow not caught on in Europe. Maybe among the readers there are those who still knows the true reasons for which in Europe will not meet the buckwheat - write in the comments.
I also want to say that in Europe there is no real bacon. There is bacon, different and delicious, but not fat. Many do not understand Russian, who can not imagine their life without fat. Ukrainians lard - is generally the whole of life (there will not argue).
Now, my friend, when I come home to my mother home, asks her to cook buckwheat porridge.
Personally, I love buckwheat, bathed in milk. And you?