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    Column: Chef Maya-Camille Broussard makes pies and peace at her new Justice of the Pies bakery in Chicago

    by Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune Nov 13, 2023 6 minutes
    Chef-owner Maya-Camille Broussard at her bakery Justice of the Pies in Avalon Park on Oct. 28, 2023.

    CHICAGO -- Maya-Camille Broussard, chef and owner of Justice of the Pies, specializes in bold and thoughtful statements on traditional pies, quiches and tarts. Her greater goal has always been to become a social mission-based bakery. That’s long before she opened her beautiful new shop in the Avalon Park neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.

    “I love nostalgia treats, and my dad loved pies,” she said. She named the business in a nod to her late father, a defense attorney. “So in this space I’m able to incorporate things that he loved and things that I currently love.”

    What Broussard currently loves at Justice of the Pies, her first physical bakery, is a fierce abundance for a community that she did not have growing up.

    “I am always thinking from a scarcity perspective,” said the chef, a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Baker in 2022. “Meaning, I’m not going to let something sit on my shelf forever.”

    In September, she had a seasonal flight with three slices featuring her fragrant lemon

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