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MACARONS
The story of the Ladurée macaron starts in

LADURÉE AROUND THE WORLD

the middle of the 19th century with Pierre

In 1993, with his father's help, David
Holder bought the mythical Ladurée
tea room on rue Royale, waking the
sleeping beauty from her long slumber. Four years later, encouraged by
the success of the rue Royale store,
the Ladurée tea room and boutique
on the Champs-Elysées, decorated by
Jacques Garcia, opened its doors.

Desfontaines, who ﬁrst thought of taking
two macaron shells and joining them with
a delicious ganache ﬁlling. The recipe has
not changed since. And yet today, scores
of pastry shops and bakeries offer Parisian
macarons in many different ﬂavors. At Bakery
Nouveau in Seattle, these almond ﬂour and
meringue cookies are baked to perfection
and ﬁlled with creamy ganache, rich buttercream or decadent caramel. They are available individually, or in six- and 12-count gift
boxes. Flavors range from traditional favorites like dark chocolate ganache and salted
caramel to the more adventurous lavender
ganache or tart yuzu.
At Bennison's Bakery in Chicago, a variety of
ﬂavors are available, such as classic chocolate, raspberry, strawberry, vanilla, caramel,

Openings in other prestigious locations came to follow: in 2002, the rue
Bonaparte won over the Left Bank, in
the old gallery of one of the post-war
era's "great ladies" of interior design,
Madeleine Castaing.
In 2005, a store in London's Harrods
marked the start of an international
adventure.

mocha or pistachio. Made of egg whites,
tional French macarons date back nearly 400
years. Filled with creams or ganache, each
macaron is as delicious to eat as it is difficult
to create, according to owner Jory Downer.
Earlier this year, Ladurée announced that it
plans to go fully vegan at its two-year-old
Beverly Hills, California, shop, with other
locations to follow. Ladurée is transforming
the Beverly Hills menu with ingredients such
as almond buttermilk and coconut oil. In September, it added vegan macarons and other
plant-focused items to the menu at its Paris
locations before expanding them to nearly 80

In 2008, the first store launched in
Japan, in parallel with the opening of
the first Ladurée Bar in Paris on rue
Lincoln. In 2011 a store opened on
New York's Madison Avenue.
2012 was a big year, with a host of
new arrivals: in Japan, in Switzerland,
the opening of a Ladurée manufacture in Enney, and in France, the new
chocolate line Marquis De Ladurée
launched on rue de Castiglione in
Paris. This year saw new boutiques
in Hong Kong, Cannes, Saint-Tropez,
Sao Paulo, and Stockholm.

locations worldwide.
"When I tell them in Paris, we'll have the
vegan macaron and the vegan croissant, they
look at me like 'OK, what is she saying?'" says
Ladurée co-president Elisabeth Holder. "It's a
revolution."

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2013 to the present day has seen arrivals in Singapore, Florence, Bucharest, Soho in New York (the first tea
room restaurant), Miami, Bangkok,
Brussels, Azerbaijan, Dubai, the Philippines and Luxembourg.

almond powder, icing sugar and sugar, tradi-

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