These food professionals didn ... chef and co-owner of Red Beard Restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia, also votes for banana pudding as the best Southern dessert. But he prefers to follow the lead ...

2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ... It’s a little Alpine and a little Southern, “so the dessert really tells the story of this restaurant,” Gorline said. For those who can’t afford ...

But transplants from the American South will gravitate toward the homey pecan-paved tarts, miniature relatives of the familiar holiday pies lovingly baked by grandmothers from Atlanta to Austin.

There’s no shortage of Southern virtuosity in the ... by By Kim Severson Kim Severson has lived in Atlanta since 2010 and began writing about food for The New York Times in 2004.