Cuisinart Food Processor
notes: label: Description
content: Chuck Williams, the founder of a successful chain of retail stores (Williams-Sonoma) specializing in kitchenware and household furnishings, began his work in Sonoma, California in 1953. He brought professional and restaurant quality cookware, marketed through mail order catalogues and high design stores, to an American market that looked beyond its domestic roots for food and cookware. Williams, a great home cook, used the products he brought to an American audience including his original Cuisinart and several other models. Williams eventually gave this one, c. 1978, to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: American inventor Carl Sontheimer developed the Cuisinart food processor as a more domestic version of the semi-industrial French Robot Coupe. In contrast to classic French techniques that call for everything to be prepared painstakingly by hand, the food processor quickly dispatches all the beating, pounding, mixing, mincing, and sieving common to “La Technique.”
label: Description
content: Sontheimer gave Cuisinarts to Julia Child and to Chuck Williams, who began selling the machine in his stores. When Julia Child demonstrated cooking around the country, she carried her new favorite cooking tool with her, increasing its exposure to home cooks. When Julia used it, cooks then demanded it, and entrepreneurs like Williams provided these new things that Julia and others had inspired new cooks to use. The regularly improved versions have been best-selling kitchen appliances since their introduction in the early 1970’s.
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: kitchen
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0116.04
label: accession number
content: 2012.0116
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0116.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: food processor
label: Object Name
content: Cuisinart
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 7 in x 9 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 17.78 cm x 24.13 cm