SC - Servers eating free

[ruadh]

In 1536, a young Catholic priest from Holland named Menno Simons joined the
Anabaptist movement. His writings and leadership united many of the
Anabaptist groups, who were nicknamed "Mennonites."
Most of there meals were served together, family [quite large and extended
families] style.
Ru

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "margali" <margali at 99main.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: SC - Servers eating free


> IIRC, some time ago I read that there was an incident at a fancy
> feast that a table was rendered sort of piqued because a young
> gentleman [novice priest maybe?] who was very nervous at being
> seated at table with some notable [an abbot?] that he was too shy
> to ask for the serving dishes from down the table and only ate
> from those close to him, which were of some particular dainty -
> and the rest of the table didn't get their portion of the foods.
> Probably 15-20 years ago so my memory probably comes from some
> thoroughly disreputable book ;-) Since [if the story is correct]
> family style was regarded as common, enough that this particular
> incident was remembered in somebody's memories, it might seem to
> be seen that family style was fairly popular at large feasts
> [maybe it could have been one of those ineffable british guild
> feasts  possibly?]
>
> -margali
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The Quote Starts Here:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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