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I talked to my son Sakae in Portland last night. He was telling me how suddenly it's gotten cold and wintery up there.  He said he likes the plaid wool shirt I sent him for his birthday.  

I woke up this morning to the sound of rain tapping hard on the skylights.  It feels like winter in Santa Monica, too.

 It's a perfect day for pancakes. There is still some Anson Mills buckwheat flour that Glenn Roberts sent me to try. Buckwheat flour is made from uncooked groats. Anson Mills makes a very dark and earthy buckwheat flour. The darkness comes from the black hull in the flour.  The hull is rich in Lysine, an important amino acid. I like the flavor of dark buckwheat flour but when using four that contains the hull, you have to be sure that the buckwheat is not sprayed with chemicals.