food by QUORI THEODOR American artist Quori Theofor investigates the politics of vulnerability through the lens of food as a social phenomenon. They are a founding member of Spiral Theory Test Kitchen (in collaboration with Precious Okoyomon and Bobbi Salvör Menuez) and Circle Time School (in collaboration with DIS magazine and Telfar Global). In this text, they create recipes based on the 16th- and 17th-century colonial history of witchcraft and how it relates to food. The question: is a recipe already a spell? a lorica is a litany is a circle good wife spell repellent Witch cakes, also known as urine cakes for obvious reasons, are devised to repel dark magic. Colonial settlers like Goodwife Sibley, a key figure in the 1692 Salem witch trials, baked these cakes, ironically trying to repel witchcraft with … more witchcraft. The list of ingredients calls for human urine, specifically of “the…