Our lives are structured around eating and are reflected in the diverse food we eat. Food provides not only sustenance, but also a defining sense of culture and identity. Surrealist Salvador Dalí illustrated a cookbook with outrageous and beautiful food presentation ideas, Pablo Picasso liked to cook for his friends, and gastronomic habits of the world's most famous occultist, Aleister Crowley, are legendary. Carolyn Tillie will delve into rituals of food, which create and sustain our worldviews.