Most Ladurée Macarons Not Fresh
Part of the allure of going to Paris is walking along the Seine, gawking at the glittering Eiffel Tower at night and heading to the iconic macaron shop, Ladurée, for an authentic Parisian treat. And everyone knows Ladurée in Paris makes the freshest macarons of the entire Ladurée empire, right?
Wrong.
What most people may not know is that the macarons at Ladurée in Paris ― or any Ladurée around the world, for that matter ― aren’t made fresh in the store. Most of them are made in a factory in Switzerland, preassembled and then shipped across the world in a “hibernation state†(more on that later).
