I am a food and agriculture business writer. My work has been featured in Mashable, The A.V. Club, Culinary Institute of America, SF Chronicle, Yahoo, The Huffington Post and more. I am a MasterChef Top 100 finalist. I created food site Pâté Smith, as well as run music news site Mind Equals Blown. I am currently studying at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Previously I studied economics at NYU and have lived in NYC, Seattle and SF. Contact me at christinatroitino@gmail.com.