FLT ATTENDANT RPTS REGARDING SMELL OF SOMETHING BURNING JUST AFTER TKOF. COCKPIT CREW SMELLED IT AS WELL. RETURN LAND.

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MINS AFTER TKOF; I SMELLED SMOKE. I NOTIFIED THE COCKPIT; AS DID THE FLT ATTENDANTS IN THE REAR OF THE ACFT. THE COCKPIT CREW COULD SMELL IT TOO. I CHKED ALL POSSIBLE SOURCES IN MY AREA -- GALLEY; OVENS; LAVATORY; COFFEE MAKERS. AT THE SAME TIME; THE COCKPIT DECLARED AN EMER. THE CAPT NOTIFIED US (FLT ATTENDANTS) THAT WE WOULD BE TURNING BACK AND LNDG IN DFW IN ABOUT 3 MINS. I WALKED THROUGH THE CABIN TO DO A SAFETY CHK AS THE #2 FLT ATTENDANT ANNOUNCED TO THE PAX THAT WE WOULD BE GOING BACK TO DFW (THEY COULD SMELL SMOKE TOO). BY THIS TIME; THE SMOKE HAD DISSIPATED; OR WE BECAME USED TO THE SMELL. WE LANDED SAFELY AND THE FIRE DEPT CHKED THE ACFT FOR FIRE BEFORE WE HEADED BACK TO THE GATE. AS THE PAX DEPLANED; THEY TOLD US (CAPT AND MYSELF); THAT THEY EACH SMELLED SOMETHING BURNING. I ASSUME WHATEVER IT WAS THAT WAS BURNING; BURNED ITSELF OUT. WE WERE GIVEN ANOTHER PLANE AND REBOARDED AND LEFT DFW AGAIN SAFELY. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 414326: IT ALMOST SMELLED AS IF SOMEONE HAD JUST LIT A MATCH AND THEN IT SMELLED MORE LIKE BURNT FOOD OF SOME KIND. IT DID NOT SMELL LIKE AN ELECTRICAL FIRE; HYD LEAK; OIL; OR ANY OF THE USUAL ACRID BURNING SMELLS I'VE ENCOUNTERED BEFORE. THE FO LATER SAID HE HAD SEEN SMOKE IN THE COCKPIT. PAX ALL SMELLED THE BURNING SMELL AND WERE ALARMED.