> > "Karen" > wrote
>
>
> It is funny, but it's simpler than that, I think. It's a French oven because
> it's made in France. You wouldn't think a French company would all it a
> Dutch oven, would you? ;-) It's a nationalism thing.
>
> Actually, I don't believe they use either term in France. There's another
> (French) word for them over there. "Dutch oven" is a generic cooking term
> that's been around forever. I think "French oven" is an invention of the
> marketeers.
>
> On Le Creuset's USA web site, they use the terms "round oven" and "oval
> oven" to describe the two shapes.
>
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I think the French call it a cocotte. A pressure cooker would be a
cocotte minute.

Tracy