Welcome to Retro Recipes! Brought to you from the capable kitchen of Eat Me Daily's Stephanie Butler, each week revisits a preparation from the past that straddles the line between ingenious and absurd. This week: Rumaki.

As you might expect from someone who has a serious fetish for vintage cookbooks, pencil skirts, and the music of Sergio Mendes, I'm all aflutter for the recently-premiered third season of Mad Men. For me, the major plotlines take a backseat to the details of dresses, cocktails, and the staggering amount of cigarettes smoked (In an office! At lunch! While pregnant!) by the leading players. How can I concentrate on Pete's marital woes when Joan is in the same room? Why should I care about Bobbie Barrett when Don looks so great in a suit? And how can I really appreciate the depth of Betty's humiliation over her dinner party when I can only think about how much I'd like to recreate her menu?

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