Royal banquet

Barbara Sugar and birthday boy John Cariere chatter behind Prentis Brown’s over-the-top table setting for a royal banquet Feb. 23 at the Prentiss Club, Natchez, Miss. Royal banquet for restaurateur Cariere whose culinary creativity is matched only by his love of fun. The invitation — embellished with crowns — asked recipients to celebrate "the birth of our benevolent host 'King' John Paul Cariere." Leave it to clever and creative Jon and Bonne Summers to show up with a crown — a red velvet and gold crown they presented to Cariere as part of the evening’s frothy happenings. And the decor for the 20-foot table? Brown combined lush roses and fruit to fill it — can we gush — elegantly and stupendously.