I can't say I've eaten buckwheat beyond pancakes and soba noodles, but I like it, and I'll definitely be trying out your recipe, Baraka_Guru.
More evidence that buckwheat is the food of the gods, from the Wikipedia entry (and my own experience):
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In recent years, buckwheat has been used as a substitute for other grain in gluten free beer. Buckwheat is used in the same way as barley to produce a malt that can form the basis of a mash that will brew a beer without gliadin or hordein (together gluten) and therefore can be suitable for coeliacs or others sensitive to certain glycoproteins.[25]
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Rogue Ales here in Oregon makes a few beers with buckwheat (not the gluten free kind, though)--they are marketed as soba ales, given that they were co-created by Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. I've tried the Morimoto Soba Ale:
and found it to be quite tasty.
EDIT: Somehow I missed that Anxst had already linked to soba-as-beer. Ah well.