[Sca-cooks] puff pastry

[Irmgart]

OK... I have no idea even where to start with finding the answer to
this, so i thought I'd ask all of you educated cook type peoples ^_~

Is puff pastry or a technique similar to puff pastry period?

My gut instinct is "no." It has the feel of frou frou 19th c. French
cooking to me, but I haven't done any deep research into it (I've
googled but only spent about 20 min looking)

Thanks!

Irmgart