Ladurée :: Tarte Pistache-Griotte
I think 2011 will be remembered as quite the inauspicious year for Ladurée. Competition from the new wave of grandes pâtisseries got stepped up a few notches with the arrival of both Café Pouchkine and Un Dimanche à Paris, their chef pâtissier Philippe Andrieu quit and fled to Bordeaux, and, as if that weren’t enough,
Ladurée :: Cupcake Fraise-Rhubarbe
Ladurée is such a polarizing force. For everyone who thinks they have the greatest macarons in the history of the universe, there’s that other camp that says they’re too sweet, too delicate, too mass produced, too artificially flavored, too … you name it. I am, of course, in the pro-Ladurée macaron camp, feeling that at
Ladurée :: Réglisse Macaron
Happy Halloween, everyone! I really wanted to showcase a piece today that was at least quasi-Halloweeny, so I thought long and hard about what to share. My first instinct was to pop up something from Arnaud Larher, because most of his work is so tacky and disgusting that it’s ******* terrifying. But I ruled that
Ladurée :: Pétale de Rose Macaron
During my summer 2010 Parisian pastry binge, I think I visited Ladurée just about every day for 3 months. They opened earlier than everyone else, and I loved to get my morning kouglof and pain aux raisins cannelle. They made the perfect appetizer, because I’d usually also pick up a pastry or two – you
Ladurée :: Macaron Goyave
Finally. It’s with this macaron that I’ve finally discovered a French word far less elegant than its English counterpart. While we have words like lime and blueberry, they have citron vert and myrtille to outdo us. Even when we have fairly cool words, like raspberry and licorice, they come up with the equivalent or better
