[Sca-cooks] Last Supper in Art

[Johnna Holloway]

Just came across mention of this interesting theory.

   Were the twelve apostles guilty of overeating at the Last Supper?

Brian and Craig Wansink teamed up to analyze the amount of food  
depicted in 52 of the best-known paintings of the Last Supper (Phaidon  
Press 2000). After indexing the sizes of the foods by the sizes of the  
average disciple’s head, they found that portion size, plate size, and  
bread size increased dramatically over the last one thousand years.  
Overall, the main courses depicted in the paintings grew by 69%, plate  
size by 66%, and bread size by 23%.

The study’s findings are published in the April 2010 issue of the  
International Journal of Obesity.

http://www.mindlesseating.org/lastsupper/



Johnnae