Chef Maya-Camille Broussard Makes Pies and Peace at Her New Justice of the Pies Bakery in Chicago

Opening Justice of the Pies gave this chef a community that she never had while growing up.

Chef-owner Maya-Camille Broussard at her bakery, Justice of the Pies, in Avalon Park on Oct. 28, 2023. John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/TNS

By Louisa Kung Liu Chu From Chicago Tribune

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.