French restaurants will have to include detail in their menus Foods they don’t prepare in their kitchens. The measure, which has so far been optional for businesses in the neighboring country, will now become mandatory, as announced by the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Trade, Crafts and Tourism, Olivia Grégoire.
The measure aims, among other things, to: Better protect consumersit also aims to promote the work of restaurants that actually cook their own food, and thirdly, it aims to contribute to the defense of French gastronomy. Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2010.
“Restaurants that serve good home-cooked food should be valued,” Grégoire said in a message to the X network last Sunday. The aim of the initiative proposed by government minister Macron is to at the end of this year letters 175,000 restaurants ‘La Tribune du Dimanche’ newspaper detailed that there are dishes in France that are not prepared in everyone’s kitchen.
‘Fait maison’, homemade
Since 2014 French catering establishments may mark as follows: ‘fait maison’ (homemade), or homemade) from raw products to the dishes they prepare in their kitchens. But this optional measure is considered too vague because this mechanism does not report meals that are cooked outside the restaurant, usually industrially, and then reheated in the microwave before being served to customers.
This is not the first time Minister Grégoire has stood out for his defense of traditional French cuisine; a practice that, in his view, would also serve French cuisine. lower food prices Inflation has been badly affected in France.
This summer the head of Small and Medium Enterprises argued: “teach how to cook raw products “Once again to avoid buying more expensive ready-made products,” he told the newspaper ‘Sud-Ouest’ when answering a question about inflation and its consequences on families.
“Cooking classes need to go back to school,” he added in the same interview, insisting on the “little kitchen of everyday life.”