Hollow Out a Drumstick This Thanksgiving, and Other Vintage Cookbook Brainwaves

Also: Emilia Perez is weird but kinda good but WEIRD, but... kinda good?

A few weeks ago, my fellow Broads helped me decide which Vintage Cookbook I’d buy next. The winner was The Glamour Magazine After Five Cookbook, which I obediently purchased, even though someone had bought the copy I wanted and I had to settle for one without a dust jacket. J’accuse!!!!  While I was there, I also picked up The Glamour Magazine Party Book: How to Give a Successful Party The Way We Live Today Whatever the Occasion. The good news: These books are both highly diverting, especially the latter — and they are more useful than ever as we head into the holidays, and you may be planning to host folks for Thanksgiving, which is (I hate to tell you) a week from Thursday. If you feel behind, I sympathize. Perhaps Glamour can help.

Let’s start with 1952’s After Five, which is primarily menus for every day of the week, and which is designed “as a chart to aid the working girl who comes home, tired and spent, from her office only to face the insurmountable problem of preparing an orig…