ratio of cooks to feasters WAS: SC - questions

[Bonne of Traquair]

>
> > The other interesting part of those RII numbers is that there are only 
>300
> >  servitors to those 10000 feasters. that's just 1 server for every 33
> >  feasters.  That seems decidedly low to me, even for slap the pot of 
>stew on
> >  the table type serving.

Who were the 300?  The servants already on staff of the host?  Perhaps these 
were supplemented by personal servants that the feasters had brought along 
with them?

Bonne
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