Topo Pino

Topo Pino Rooted in the past. Handcrafted for the present. Inspired by the rhythm of the seasons.

With each summer at Topo Pino, we return to Janet McKenzie Hill’s legacy.More than a century ago, students came here to ...
05/29/2026

With each summer at Topo Pino, we return to Janet McKenzie Hill’s legacy.

More than a century ago, students came here to study cookery in the mountains — learning, gathering, and carrying new skills back into the world.

As another summer begins, we find ourselves tending the same spirit in new ways: through the house, the garden, the kitchen, and the seasonal life of this place.

Education, beauty, usefulness, and care — still unfolding here, one summer at a time.

Janet McKenzie Hill, the woman who gave Topo Pino its name.A food writer, culinary educator, cookbook author, and longti...
05/15/2026

Janet McKenzie Hill, the woman who gave Topo Pino its name.

A food writer, culinary educator, cookbook author, and longtime editor of The Boston Cooking-School Magazine, Hill trained under Fannie Merritt Farmer before helping shape the way American home cooking was taught, written about, and preserved.

In the early 1900s, Janet and her husband purchased a White Mountains property in South Chatham, New Hampshire, named it Topo Pino, and established the Summer School of Cookery here — bringing women to the mountains for a season of learning, cooking, gathering, and practical skill.

At a time when women’s professional paths were far more limited, Hill believed education could open new doors. Through cookery, writing, and instruction, she helped women build knowledge, confidence, and the skills to pursue work of their own.

More than a century later, her vision remains part of the story we’re carrying forward: recipes as inheritance, the kitchen as a place of learning, and seasonal living as a way of life.

At the heart of the home: recipes written, shared, saved, and returned to season after season.Our Cookery recipe cards a...
05/14/2026

At the heart of the home: recipes written, shared, saved, and returned to season after season.

Our Cookery recipe cards are made for the dishes that become part of a family’s rhythm — the ones worth keeping, gathering around, and passing along.

Happy Mother’s Day from Topo Pino.Topo Pino is a mother-daughter project, shaped by the places we love, the work we shar...
05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day from Topo Pino.

Topo Pino is a mother-daughter project, shaped by the places we love, the work we share, and the small seasonal rituals that make a place feel alive.

The Bloomery is heading into its second season, the last frost is still ahead, and we’re in that in-between stretch of planning, sorting seeds, watching the weather, and waiting for everything to begin.

Soon enough, the garden will be full again.

Today feels like the right time to share a note from the season ahead. Join our email list to receive seasonal notes from our world.

With warmth,
Caitlin & Lucy

The Summer School of Cookery at Topo Pino, early 1900s.Days shaped in the kitchen—by season, by hand.
05/03/2026

The Summer School of Cookery at Topo Pino, early 1900s.

Days shaped in the kitchen—by season, by hand.

Once, this was a place people came to learn the rhythm of a kitchen—to cook by season, to tend the everyday with care.Th...
05/03/2026

Once, this was a place people came to learn the rhythm of a kitchen—to cook by season, to tend the everyday with care.

That spirit still lingers here.

The Cookery.

Warm almond, golden crust, vanilla.

A place set, something softened, a reason to linger just a little longer.The Cookery is less about occasion, more about ...
04/27/2026

A place set, something softened, a reason to linger just a little longer.

The Cookery is less about occasion, more about the feeling of being there — in a place long meant for gathering, as the days begin to stretch again.

The meadow opens up here. The treeline falls away and the light comes in full — warm, unhurried, lasting.Meadowlight ope...
04/12/2026

The meadow opens up here. The treeline falls away and the light comes in full — warm, unhurried, lasting.

Meadowlight opens with wild daisy and tea rose, brightened by strawberry, and settles into blonde woods and sweet musk — named for the high meadows of the White Mountains, where the light falls soft and unobstructed.

A candle for open windows, morning rooms, and the unhurried hours of the day.

There are meadows that hold light differently than others. Wide-open, unhurried, the kind that stay with you long after ...
04/11/2026

There are meadows that hold light differently than others. Wide-open, unhurried, the kind that stay with you long after you’ve left them. Meadowlight was named for this.

The trail narrows here. The ferns crowd in. The air shifts.Highland Fern opens with sage and rosemary, moves into eucaly...
04/10/2026

The trail narrows here. The ferns crowd in. The air shifts.

Highland Fern opens with sage and rosemary, moves into eucalyptus and cedar, and settles on a base of oakmoss and tonka — named for the lower slopes of the White Mountains, where green things, stone, and cool air meet.

A clarifying scent for desks, quiet kitchens, and rooms that need to feel less enclosed.

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200 Kancamagus Highway
Lincoln, NH
03262

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