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A cook could be a servant, in the same general class as a serf, or a freeman, or the independent owner of an establishment preparing food, making the cook middle class. Since few people living in towns or cities could afford kitchens, laboring people in such places usually purchased prepared food, so cooks were often people who owned businesses.

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