Editing Food processor (section)

==History==
One of the first electric food processors was the Starmix, introduced by German company Electrostar in 1946.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://robert-schoettle.net/47-61/kriegbistod.html |title=Die Jahre 1945 - 1960 |publisher=Robert-schoettle.net |access-date=2012-10-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Electrostar Gmbh |url=http://starmix.de/history.asp |title=Sauger, Händetrockner und Industriesauger von Starmix, auch Haartrockner und Nass-Trockensauger |publisher=Starmix.de |access-date=2012-10-14 |archive-date=2016-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116220503/http://starmix.de/history.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> Although the basic unit resembled a simple blender, numerous accessories were available, including attachments for slicing bread, milk centrifuges and ice cream bowls.<ref>{{cite web|author=Martin Weck |url=http://www.eichwaelder.de/Altes/altesschild127.html |title=Starmix von Electrostar um 1960 |publisher=Eichwaelder.de |access-date=2012-10-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs5ZiYtgb2c |title=Starmix - Werbung |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-04-29 |access-date=2012-10-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.de/Das-Buch-vom-Starmix/dp/B002200SEY |title=Das Buch vom Starmix: Amazon.de: Bücher |date=January 1951 |publisher=Amazon.de |access-date=2012-10-14}}</ref> In a time when electric motors were expensive, they also developed the piccolo, where the food processor's base unit could drive a vacuum cleaner. In the 1960s, [[Albrecht von Goertz]] designed the Starmix MX3 food processor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/kunst_architektur/der_007_des_designs_1.9649443.html |title=Der 007 des Designs - NZZ.ch, 23.02.2011 |publisher=Nzz.ch |access-date=2012-10-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-63697-8.html |title=Albrecht Graf Goertz: Eigensinn und Stilgefühl - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Auto |publisher=Spiegel.de |date=2011-01-22 |access-date=2012-10-14}}</ref> Although the entire company was rebranded as Starmix in 1968 following the success of the processors, they later focused on vacuum cleaners and electric hand-dryers and the last mixer was produced around the year 2000. 
In France, the concept of a machine to process food began when a [[catering company]] salesman, [[Pierre Verdun]], observed the large amount of time his clients spent in the kitchen chopping, shredding and mixing. He produced a simple but effective solution, a bowl with a revolving blade in the base. In 1960, this evolved into Robot-Coupe, a company established to manufacture commercial "food processors" for the [[catering]] industry. In the late 1960s, a commercial food processor driven by a powerful commercial induction motor was produced. Robot-Coupe's Magimix food processor arrived from France in the UK in 1974, beginning with the Model 1800. Then, a UK company [[Kenwood Limited]] started their own first Kenwood Food Processor, 'processor de- luxe,' in 1979.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.kenwoodworld.com/uk/About-Kenwood/About/ | title=About Kenwood Limited | author=Anonymous | work=Kenwood | access-date=2012-07-10 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710004335/http://www.kenwoodworld.com/uk/About-Kenwood/About/ | archive-date=2012-07-10 }}</ref>

[[Carl Sontheimer]] introduced this same Magimix 1800 food processor to North America in 1973 under the [[Cuisinart]] brand, as America's first domestic food processor. Sontheimer contracted with a Japanese manufacturer to produce new models in 1977 in order to immediately launch his new Japanese-made food processor in 1980 when his contract with Robot-Coupe expired.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

=== Marc Harrison's Cuisinart Re-design ===
Disability research was an ongoing project because the first food processor created was not user friendly for all individuals. In 1978, [[Marc Harrison]] was a professor at the  [[Rhode Island School of Design]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findingaids.hagley.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/2193.xml|title=Hagley Museum and Library: Marc Harrison papers (2193) -- Manuscripts and Archives Department|website=findingaids.hagley.org|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref> He specialized in Industrial Design. Cuisinart, an American company, contacted and hired Harrison in 1978 to update the Food Processor.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|title=ACCESSIBLE AMERICA : a history of disability and design.|last=BESS.|first=WILLIAMSON|date=2019|publisher=NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS|isbn=978-1479894093|oclc=1032025841}}</ref> Harrison updated the product to focus on making the machine usable for those with limited abilities with fine motor skills and eyesight, which in turn made it easier for any user to operate. These updates included larger writing on the base of the product to benefit those who have vision impairments, and larger handles and buttons.<ref name=":0" />  These updates were created so that the food processor could be accessible for all users.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}