SC - Servers eating free

[Jenne Heise]

> >     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?

It's hard to tell. Certainly, there must have been dishes where one served
oneself from a common dish, at least in the period of the manners manuals,
since one is told to do or not do something when dipping from the common
dish.

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