Article: VARIATIONS ON A THEME PARTY

Some people are natural-born theme party planners: imaginative, detail-oriented types who have a knack for creating fun new worlds and inviting others in. Liz Rawls, a Cambridge resident and former competitive ballroom dancer who relished the painstaking work of making her own dazzling gowns, is one of those people. So when she and four of her childhood friends decided to throw a party to celebrate their 50th birthdays in September, they had a theme, naturally: 1957, the year they were born.

Armed with her mother's 1948 Betty Crocker cookbook, Rawls set out to re-create the dishes of her mother's generation. She made unnatural-colored Jell-O molds, cheese balls rolled in walnuts, ...

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