No? Yeah neither do I, I think of Cuisinart the iconic manufacturer of the Food Processor, so prolific in fact was Cuisinart that writer Eva Pomice of Forbes once commented that owning a Cuisinart “was tantamount to wearing a pair of Calvin Klein jeans. You could hardly boast of a gourmet kitchen if you didn’t own one of these.”  So why mention Robot Coupe, because I noticed while watching various food shows that professional chefs where referring to food processors as a Robot Coupe (pronouncing it like “robo coup”) very much like people will call facial tissue, Kleenex or cola, Coke.  This got me to thinking about how this seemingly obscure company could be the inventor of the food processor?  How in the world of professional chefs is the name used in place of the device itself but in the home kitchen Cuisinart is the name of choice?  Simple, they are French!  I kid, I kid, for the real story of the food processor just hit the jump.

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