Kay Pastorius owned and operated San Diego's School of International Cuisine for 20 years. In 1987, she and her husband, Hal, whose drawings adorn "Cruising Cuisine", moved aboard a 32-foot Bayliner and began cruising. Since 1992, Kay has written a cooking column for "Sea" magazine. Kay, whose cruising experience includes coastal Turkey and Thailand, recently completed an extended cruise of Baja California, Central America, the Panama Canal, and the Caribbean, aboard her yacht "SpiceSea".