Kevin Widrow
10+ Posts
Following on from a comment in another thread about restaurants in France using frozen and pre-cooked dishes, I saw this report the other night on the news http://www.francetvinfo.fr/label-fait-maison-les-nouvelles-regles_609855.html .
Previously, as long as a chef made some adjustments to the frozen products, they could claim the whole thing was "Fait Maison". Now, this game is up and they can only label dishes "Fait Maison" if they are 100% home made. Additionally, the label will be mentioned dish by dish on the menus. So you'll be able to tell ahead of ordering what is home made and what comes from the local "Picard professionale".
This is a great advancement as far as I am concerned and I really hope restaurants follow the rules and don't cheat, he said perhaps naively.
Anyway, some of the popular (with the internet crowd) restaurants in the area I know for a fact use pre-prepared frozen items. I'll be curious to take a look at their menus once the new rules take effect.
- Kevin
Previously, as long as a chef made some adjustments to the frozen products, they could claim the whole thing was "Fait Maison". Now, this game is up and they can only label dishes "Fait Maison" if they are 100% home made. Additionally, the label will be mentioned dish by dish on the menus. So you'll be able to tell ahead of ordering what is home made and what comes from the local "Picard professionale".
This is a great advancement as far as I am concerned and I really hope restaurants follow the rules and don't cheat, he said perhaps naively.
Anyway, some of the popular (with the internet crowd) restaurants in the area I know for a fact use pre-prepared frozen items. I'll be curious to take a look at their menus once the new rules take effect.
- Kevin