Among the many fierce and tangled debates about Southern food, banana pudding offers a clear line of demarcation: Either you like it cold, or you like it warm. Chef Rob McDaniel, who owns Helen in Birmingham with his wife, Emily, is a warm pudding guy. He grew up in Haleyville, a town of about 4,300 people in northern Alabama. Both his grandmothers made warm banana pudding. They’d layer cookies and warm custard with banana slices in a Pyrex dish, then top it with egg whites and sugar whipped into a simple
Banana Nana
Jul 17, 2023
3 minutes
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