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    sugar cubes
    Matt Taylor-Gross
    Food

    How the Victorian Obsession for Order Created the Humble Sugar Cube

    What happens when mad science meets good housekeeping? The apotheosis of 1800s food ingenuity

    By Regan Hofmann
    February 22, 2017

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