Christina Barrueta is a multi-award-winning writer who has been inducted into the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame, received the Arizona Restaurant Association’s Foodist Award for Best of the Best Food Writer and in 2025 was recognized as Most Influential in Valley Food by Arizona Foothills magazine. She is the author of Arizona Wine: A History of Perseverance and Passion and Phoenix Cooks. Her work is widely published in outlets such as Time Out, Men’s Health, PHOENIX magazine, WhereTraveler, A Taste of AZ, and Phoenix Home & Garden. Christina is also an Arizona contributing editor for The Tasting Panel and The Somm Journal, where she writes her own column, “Sonoran Scoop.” Her website, WriteOnRubee.com, has been awarded Best Food Blog by PHOENIX Magazine and is a seven-time winner of Favorite Local Food Website by Arizona Foothills. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

BOOKS PUBLISHED WITH FIGURE 1:

Phoenix Eats + Drinks
Phoenix Cooks