About Maggie
Raised on the North Shore, surrounded by fruit trees and vegetable gardens, Maggie Logan has been a passionate, life-time baker. Married four decades with three sons, tasters have always been available to critique, furthering Maggie’s baking journey.
Love of gardening, food and baking arts brought Maggie to volunteering in the kitchen at Elawa Farm, which she discovered while President of her local garden Club. Maggie brought fresh pies to the farm and, for nine successive years, was known there as the “Pie Lady”, creating myriad iterations of sweet and savory pies, tarts, breads, cookies and pastries. Maggie’s formal baking education came later in life, and she earned her Certifications in Pastry and in Bread from the acclaimed French Pastry School, Chicago, studying and interning with renowned international Pastry and Bread Champions and artists.
Maggie then practiced her Pastry craft at the Deerpath Inn, Lake Forest, where she formulated many recipes for High Tea and dessert menus. Days off from work bring baking friends and burgeoning bakers to Maggie’s kitchen, teaching techniques, experimenting, practicing, and passing along her craft to others.
Circling back to her baking roots, Maggie returned to Elawa Farm in 2019 as principal Baker and Pastry Chef, where her baking goal is to produce nutritious, sustainable products, and of course, to elicit a smile from Elawa’s patrons!
In addition to Baking, Maggie is a classically trained opera singer, with B.A. and Masters’ degrees in vocal performance. Maggie enjoys oil painting, furniture painting, sewing, gardening and decorating arts, Romance languages, and is Controller for her family’s Highland Park accounting firm.
Favorite produce from the garden: Swiss Chard
Favorite flower found at Elawa Farm: Lilac