Valeri Lucks is the co-founder and Chief Executive Pie Officer of Honeypie Cafe + Bakeshop in Milwaukee, WI. Armed with her mother's pie crust recipe, she has been baking pies since she was knee-high to a grasshopper. Pies are the darlings of her locally-focused restaurants Honeypie, Comet, SmallPie and Palomino as well as her mail-order pie program, PieGram. Valeri's recipes and pies have been featured in
Food and Wine
magazine,
Travel and Leisure
magazine,
Time Out Chicago
,
Time Out USA
,
Milwaukee Magazine
,
OnMilwaukee.com
,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
, Wisconsin Public Radio and the Discovery Channel's
United States of Bacon
. When she is not baking pies she can be found sampling bourbon with her husband and playing records for her dog.
