Bon Ton’s New Orleans Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Southerners didn’t need the 1980s revival to rediscover old favorites like bread pudding and peach cobbler. They had never stopped enjoying them. Food stylist Ginger Walsh gave me this recipe when we worked together in Nashville on a series of television specials on cooking.

This is a straightforward Southern-style bread pudding, based on one from Bon Ton Restaurant in New Orleans. You can serve it with or without the whiskey sauce—good stuff—which can also be used with any of the o