(ANSA) - PALERMO, OCTOBER 30 - As part of the exhibition of the statuary group the 'Last Supper', Caltanissetta's creativity and culture councillor Marina Castiglione will be holding a conference on 'Food and Popular Devotion'. From Christmas specialties to food ''of the dead'' and Easter lambs, from the 'muffolette di San Martino' to Carnival 'ravioli': various devotional food from the city will be illustrated. Though similar across the island, certain traditions are specific to the city, such as its 'crocette' and Easter 'Spine Sante'. The symbolic aspect of devotional food, often linked to conventional practices and therefore out-of-the-ordinary ingredients, is doubtlessly a part of the ''energy for life'' that has enabled and enables the community to come together around a table in which material and 'transcendent' realities come together, creating a relationship with saints, the dead and God. (ANSA).