The climate of this area was so bad -with high mountains, much different
from that of the South-west Japan, that farmers could not grow good grains.
Instead of eating cereal grains they had to live on barnyard grasses or
noodles. In those dire living conditions our ancestors tried to think of
ways to cook and make delicious dishes by using a "poor kind of noodle".
Because of the poverty they would keep telling the people how they could
make good soup, how to beat the noodles well and how to make good side dishes.
In this way they made SOBA an important grain noodle.
Noodles don't have to always be thin and long. Many kinds of dishes are
made with soba; such as rolling it into balls or by kneading, even making
triangles and wrapping the soba with "Miso" . |
