The Gospels record Jesus eating bread and fish, drinking wine, and keeping the Passover, the feast at which a lamb was eaten. After his resurrection he ate a piece of broiled fish (Luke 24:42–43). Beyond that he ate what Jews in Galilee ate: bread of barley or wheat, olives, figs, grapes and fish from the lake. The Gospels never set out his daily menu. They name a food when a meal matters to the story: a miracle, an argument with…

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