Hi, I’m elizabeth.
I’m a mother, gardener, cook, and the founder of Hill Road Kitchen and ALTAR. I live with my husband and our children in a rural town in New Mexico, where we are slowly restoring an old adobe compound.
For some time, Hill Road Kitchen was a seasonal food newsletter rooted in the rhythms of the land offers us seasonally. What began as recipes became a practice of paying attention, of honoring what the earth offers, and letting that shape how we live, cook, and gather.
In 2019, my body and spirit asked for a reset. Through illness and unraveling, I returned to nourishment, abandoning rules, rigid philosophies and dogmas and returning to a forgotten rhythm. The seasons became my compass. The kitchen became a place of reconnection.
What I share now is not a prescription. It’s a way of living that honors cycles of body, home, and time.
Over time, that same attention extended beyond the kitchen and into the body itself. ALTAR grew from that expansion.
Where Hill Road Kitchen explores nourishment through food and place, ALTAR explores nourishment through ritual and skin. Both are rooted in the same belief: that tending to ourselves slowly, seasonally, reverently, changes how we move through the world.
My work lives where these spaces connect, at the altar of life.
Seasonal meals.
Whole ingredients.
Ritual skincare.
A slower way of living that honors the cycles we inhabit.
With Heart, Elizabeth
Hill Road Kitchen is a return.
To flavor. To rhythm. To the wild and seductive cycles of the seasons.
I was raised in Berkeley, California, where the kitchen was always alive—something simmering, something baking, someone tasting. Between the Oxford Street house and Hill Road in Covelo, I learned early what it meant to be invited in. To stir, to help, to make a mess and still belong. Those childhood kitchens weren’t just places to cook—they were spaces of becoming.
Hill Road Kitchen is a quiet homage to that early invitation.
And a living continuation of it.
This is not a brand built on perfection, but on presence.
On eating what’s plentiful in the moment.
On honoring the kitchen as the altar of a home—a space where ingredients, memories, and ideas are laid down to grow, to soften, to nourish, and to be transformed.
Here, food is story.
Seasonality is the rhythm.
And cooking is a regenerative act—one that reconnects us to the earth, to each other, and to the fleeting beauty of now.
Hill Road Kitchen is for anyone who longs to eat and live with more rhythm.
To find depth in the daily.