SC - Servers eating free

[Laura C. Minnick]

Siegfried Heydrich wrote:
> 
>     I've done that and I find that serving family style simplifies the hell
> out of life. If you're using servers, it just means that they have to dash &
> drop rather than to stand there and dispense. If you've PC'd your portions
> ahead of time, it's easier for the guests, too. None of this 'pass the
> plate' stuff.

Not to be pedantic or anything (on Cooks' List? Nah!) but is there any
evidence that it was done this way in period?

*snif*sneeze*koff*

'Lainie