Town & Country Markets

Since November 2025, I’ve been an embedded part of the creative team at Town & Country Markets, a family-owned chain of high-end grocery stores in the Puget Sound region, working across email, web content, ads, product copy for the company’s in-house brand, naming, and store signage. 

As part of T&C’s month-long celebration of Lunar New Year, I was tasked with interviewing Hsiao-Ching Chou and Meilee Riddle, authors of Feasts of Good Fortune, for an article that would accompany a video of the mother-daughter duo shopping at T&C and preparing food from their cookbook. This assignment was a genuine pleasure: the video shoot was a blast (not to mention tasty, thanks to the cooking demo), and Hsiao-Ching and Meilee’s relationship to food, to family tradition, and to each other was truly moving. I wanted to do justice to their story; it was important to me that the finished piece feel like a feature article, not like a bland corporate blog post or an airline magazine advertorial. That meant interviewing Hsiao-Ching and Meilee in between takes in order to capture additional insights not covered during the video shoot, letting them speak in their own words, and crafting a piece with a genuine narrative arc. When given latitude, I aim to write something real, not just filler content.