Noodles made from buckwheat flour or a combination of buckwheat with whole-wheat flour.

A dark brown buckwheat noodle used in Northern Japanese cooking. Look for it in the Asian section of your supermarket. Back to the top

Buckwheat noodle. It is dark gray in color.

Soba is the name of the capital of Alodia. E. A. Wallis Budge identified it with a group of ruins on the Blue Nile 12 miles from Khartoum, where there are remains of a Meroitic temple that had been converted into a Christian church.1 This would place Soba in the modern-day Sudanese state of Al Jazirah.

Soba is a 2004 independent drama/crime film and the directional debut from Mexican filmmaker Alan Coton, who also wrote the script. It stars newcomer Claudia Soberón and Dagoberto Gama.

a client/server application done right," says Charles Abrams, a Gartner research director, who coined the term more than two years ago

a loosely coupled, network centric application that dynamically and "on demand" integrates people, processes, and information within and across business boundaries

a collection of Business Services built around a complex, end-to-end business process and optimized to a specific vertical industry