A Harte Appetite: Cuisinart inventor died unknown but left a huge mark in the ...
28.09.11
Carl G. Sontheimer died recently at the age of 83. Though he invented a artifice used in a NASA moon mission, not much press regard was given to his passing and you may not have ever heard of him. But if you have even a modest interest in cooking, you
naturally have heard of his most famous invention, because it revolutionized food preparation. Carl Sontheimer invented the Cuisinart.
It all started back in 1971 when Sontheimer, whose interest in cooking rivaled his interest in technology, attended a housewares show in France and spotted a make called the Magimix, a scaled down home version of the Android-Coupe, a food processor invented years earlier by Pierre Verdon, a French catering assemblage salesman, for use in commercial kitchens.
Sontheimer recognized that the manoeuvre had great potential for the American market and obtained the U.S. deployment rights to the machine. First, however, he spent a couple of years refining and redesigning the appliance -- improving the blades, incorporating
Source: Southeast Missourian