Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Sweet Beat
Hooker's Bread Pudding a Taste of New Orleans
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John Birdsall
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Bread pudding with caramel sauce ($5).
Day-old Hooker's Sweet Treats combines a brooding sense of 19th-century style with vivid tastes ― including owner David "Hooker" Williams' boyhood-inspired bread pudding, and coffee drinks from some of the first batches of beans from
Sightglass's in-house roaster.
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Williams has expanded slightly beyond the salted, chocolate-covered caramels Hooker's is best known for. Warm New Orleans bread pudding (Williams grew up in Louisiana) is wonderfully dense and crisp-surfaced ― studded with raisins and pecans ― under a satiny, butter-enhanced caramel sauce. Fantastic. Later in the day, the pudding will give way to caramel popcorn and, of course,
those caramels. French-press coffee and espresso drinks, like we said, from Sightglass beans.
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