Bread Pudding Poor Boy @ Ye Olde College Inn
If you soak a piece of stale French bread in the kind of liquid custard you'd use to make lost bread or bread pudding, you can bake it and find that it still looks like a piece of French bread. The amazing thing is that it now tastes like bread pudding. Mark Quitney--former chef of the Marriott Hotel on Canal Street--came up with this idea first, using bananas Foster as the custard component. But not long afterward, the College Inn put forth its version in the Po-Boy Festival and won second place. The College In still has that unique, optical illusion version on its menu. It's the best dessert in the house, and one of the most original desserts I've ever enjoyed.
