article_snippet.sent: France's global culinary influence ' recommended stricter criteria should also be introduced on food with the 'home-made' label in restaurants which currently allows most frozen and vacuum-packed food.
article_snippet.sent: Last year the French government passed a law which was meant to force restaurants to label the dishes the French government prepare from fresh ingredients in the French government own kitchens as 'fait maison' (homemade).
article_snippet.sent: But ministers have been forced to admit that a law which was meant to force restaurants to label the dishes they prepare from fresh ingredients in their own kitchens as 'fait maison' (homemade) had failed as diners had little faith in the new label.
article_snippet.sent: A new law to try and promote freshly made dishes has been criticised as chefs are still able to buy in read-made ingredients .
article_snippet.sent: Commerce minister Carole Delga claimed the fait maison logo would 'allow all, at a glance, to distinguish food that has been assembled from industrially prepared elements from cuisine created from raw produce'.
article_snippet.sent: But a law which was meant to force restaurants to label the dishes they prepare from fresh ingredients in their own kitchens as 'fait maison' (homemade) was criticised for not going far enough as restaurants were still able to use ingredients such as factory-made pastry and claim the food was homemade.
article_snippet.sent: I chop all my steak tartare to order, but someone who buys all my steak tartare in, vacuum packed in a controlled atmosphere, where all my steak tartare might have come from 10 different cows, can call theirs fait maison too.
article_snippet.sent: that's not real cooking, it's not fait maison.'
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Delga has now pledged to tighten up the rules around a law which was meant to force restaurants to label the dishes they prepare from fresh ingredients in their own kitchens as 'fait maison' (homemade).