Here's an interesting site: http://chefmom.myria.com/articles/gourmetterms.htm They say it's mostly New Orleanian, but for the life of me some I've never heard of! *sigh* Soffya http://www.aeonline.biz/Links.htm Argent, a patriarchal cross between three crescent gules on a chief sable three fleur-de-lys Or