I agree, I think they made coffee mills (much the same thing as you say).

I have a feeling Elizabeth David went to Peugeot, who made coffee mills with
steel rollers, and asked them to make a small hand mill for pepper of the
typew we know today. She certainly is famous for carrying round her own mill
to restaurants.


"Jack Denver" > wrote in message
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> This is what Peugeot claims, but I really doubt it. As I said before, for
> one thing there were very similar Turkish coffee grinders that had been
> around for centuries and pepper had been used for millenia.
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> "arturo bandini" > wrote in message
> om...
> > "h" > wrote in message
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> > > Anyone know who invented the pepper mill, and when?
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> > Peugeot. France, 1842.
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