"Parkhurst, Scott Contractor" wrote: > > I'm not familiar with the term "terroire," > > Looks like I misspelled, at least according > to http://www.epicurious.com . At least they > didn't insist on using a tilde: > > terroir > [teh-RWAHR] > French for "soil" and used in the phrase gout de terroir... I thought it was French for "Little rat-like dog that constantly yips, and needs a good foot up the..." Oh wait, that's spelled differently, isn't it??? ;-))) No flames please, I'm a lover of all animals... well, most... -- Erich New computer. Haven't been ambitious enough to re-write the sig. file yet...