Study: Artists Have Plumped Up Last Supper Portion Sizes

“In a bid to uncover the roots of super-sized American fare, a pair of sibling scholars has turned to an unusual source: 52 artists’ renderings of the New Testament’s Last Supper. … Over the course of the millennium, [they] found that the entrees depicted on the plates laid before Jesus’ followers grew by about 70%, and the bread by 23%.”