Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
LEFT: Joseph A. Matalon (left) and wife Bernadette chat with Wallace Campbell.
RIGHT: Jennifer Lim (left) with Lorna Golding at her cocktail reception held at Dillsbury Avenue, Jacks Hill, last Saturday.
Chester Francis-Jackson, Contributor
Precious angels, 'If it's worth doing, then do it absolutely and fabulously well', must have been the motto behind the absolutely fabulous to-do that socialite Jennifer Lim employed in hosting her post-birthday celebrations last Saturday evening at her upper St. Andrew residence. But whatever was her modus operandi, hers was a style-purr-fect party, and then some!
Needless to say, St. Andrew socialite and Jamaica Labour Party social powerhouse Jennifer Lim is a seasoned party-giver, usually, being the hostess, for one high-society do or another. However, she was not throwing a representational to-do or a political reception, she was, in fact, hosting a post-birthday reception, following on her October 23 birthday. And, my dears, it proved a social charmer - a tenner, on the social Richter scale, and then some!
Absolutely awesome caterers
Pumpkins, there are really four to five absolutely awesome caterers in the city of Kingston, who, when called upon, transform the act of dining from a chore to endure, to a culinary journey, transforming those partaking from mere perfunctory observers, to curious voyagers on an esoteric gourmet escape. The three leading gourmets in this field are (and order of listing does not necessarily indicate primacy) Betty Delfosse-Ingleton, Susanne Couch, and Patsy Lyn (Successors). For her post-birthday celebratory do my dears, the fab Jennifer Lim chose Susanne Couch.
Well dears, the happening Mrs. Couch served up one fabulous feast that was a gourmet's dream and then some, as everything was a palate-inspiring, definitely mouth-watering, and oh so satisfying a rendezvous with the senses of taste and appreciation!
Oh, and for my word, what an absolute treat! Dovecakes, oh for a year of such post-birthday celebrations! My dears, this here scribe dare say, the Romans never had it so good! We are talking a feast of which even the gods would have turned a brittle purple, out of sheer envy and rage, questioning the temerity of mere mortals to so indulge!!
Mm, mm, it was like that - mmmm good!
And then there was the music. Sweet-things, the Wayne Armond aggregation was the maestro.
Among the notables were former Prime Minister Edward Seaga and his wife, Carla; Prime Minister Bruce Golding and wife Lorna; Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry and his dish of a wife, Dawn; Education Minister Andrew Holness and his charming wife, Juliet; Chief Justice (ret.) Edward Zacca and wife Hope; noted Jamaican New York-based surgeon Dr. Ainsworth Allen; U.S. Ambassador Brenda LaGrange Johnson and her hubby Howard; Spanish Ambassador Jesús Silva and his wife, Sara; German Ambassador Jurgen Engel and his wife, Ana; Barbara Matalon; Tony Hart and his fabulous wife, Sheila; Beverly Junor Levy; Susan Alexander; Joe Matalon and his wife, Bernadette; Dennis and Diane Lalor.
We saw Kenny Benjamin; Charley Johnston and wife Lisa; Peter Junor; Annette Burrowes; Drs. Dhiru and Laura Tanna; Russell Hadeed; Aubyn and Tamara Hill; Mark and Betty McKenzie; Christine Gore; Godfrey and Beverly Kawass; Moshe Mohalem; Rose Tavares-Finson; Simon Todd and wife Page; Romi and Nina Sobiki; Robert Haughton.
Family members included brother, art collector Wallace Campbell and the charming Cathy Gibbon; sisters Valerie Marzouca with former husband John Marzouca; hotelier Ruth Hussey and hubby Laurie; Hyacinth Davidson and companion, Dr. Don Christian; son Nicholas McAdam and daughters Liz McAdam and Anna Ryan and husband Emile, both in from Florida for the celebrations, plus a number of others.
