Kasha bread article is about the food. In English, kasha usually refers to the pseudocereal buckwheat or its culinary preparations.

Kashas have been an important element of Slavic diet for at least 1,000 years. As an Ashkenazi-Jewish comfort food, kasha is often served with onions and brown gravy on top of farfalle, known as kasha varnishkes. A woman grinding kasha, an 18th-century drawing by J. The most popular kasha recipe in Russia is that of crumbly cooked buckwheat seasoned with butter.