Jinx Morgan

Not long after graduation, my college roommate, Judy Perry (then Pascoe) and I ran up a little cookbook called "Saucepans and the Single Girl" which was published by Doubleday in 1965 and, believe it or not, was reissued by Warner Books this year. As Bon Appetit said of the book recently, "It's so retro it's cool again." We hope we are too.

It's been a jam-packed four and a half decades with marriages (two), stepchildren (three) and grandchildren (seven), much joy and only a few bumps along the road. Almost thirty-five years ago I married journalist and author Jeff Morgan and for more than two decades we've been living on a wacky, wonderful and heart-stoppingly beautiful Caribbean island where we own a small hotel called the Sugar Mill. For two rookies, learning the hotel business was a real challenge, but we've rarely regretted our decision to move to the British Virgin Islands ' usually in hurricane season.

Jeff and I also have been lucky enough to explore the world writing about food, wine and travel for a number of magazines. In what we laughingly call our spare time, we've written a number of books, including "The Sugar Mill Caribbean Cookbook" published by The Harvard Common Press and "Two Cooks in One Kitchen" published by Doubleday. We were contributing editors and columnists for Bon Appetit magazine for over twenty five years. For a spell I was contributing editor on food and wine for American Airlines in-flight magazine. As I recall, the only stipulation they made was that I never write about airline food. Who could blame them?

About fifteen years ago an interest in watercolor painting led me to a third career. Now my paintings hang on the walls of the Sugar Mill Hotel (it's great to have your own gallery) and are shown in several galleries in the British and US Virgin Islands. Four of my paintings were selected to hang on the walls of the Legislative Council of the British Virgin Islands and one is in Government House. This May I will join several other island artists for a show at BVI House in London. Check out my work at www.watercolorsbyjinx.com.