Best Ever Chocolate Pudding

I grew up thinking pudding came out of a box. Buy the little box at the grocery store, mix it with cold milk at home, and within minutes you have pudding. I didn’t even know you could make pudding from scratch until I was well into my culinary career. Lucky for me (and you), I learned to make pudding, specifically chocolate pudding, from my first pastry chef mentor, Rick Katz. Rick is a purist and doesn’t like to use any superfluous ingredients or extraneou