Mary Lucille’s Bakery, Restaurant, and Tea Room bring Southern nostalgia to Cumming City Center

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Mary Lucille’s Bakery, Restaurant, and Tea Room bring Southern nostalgia to Cumming City Center

Cumming resident Jill Harris grew up in Kansas, baking breads and pies and making jellies and jams with her grandmother, Mary Lucille Moore. After losing her spa director position during the pandemic, Harris started baking pies and giving them to friends and family. “People kept asking me to open a bakery,” she says. She started with a cottage bakery and sold 150 from-scratch pies the first Thanksgiving. “It took off like crazy,” she says. Fast-…