Sugar Cube 方糖

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Pagan Kennedy, Who Made That? (Sugar Cube). New York Times Magazine, Nov 18, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/1 ... hat-sugar-cube.html

Note:
(a) Elizabeth Abbott, Sugar; A bittersweet history. Overlook Press, 2010.
(i) A review of the book (there is no need to read the rest of the review):

Issac Chotiner, An Opiate of the People. New York Times, July 11, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/books/review/Chotiner-t.html
("(Sugar cane was first domesticated in New Guinea.) By the middle of the 17th century, the French, English and Dutch empires were all actively competing for Caribbean land that would support their sweet tooth. Some early plantation workers were in fact poor Europeans, many of whom perished under the abusive and sickening conditions. The owners managed just fine, however: of the estimated 11 million slaves who traveled to the New World [from west Africa], more than half worked on sugar plantations.")
(b) Moravia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravia
(a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic; It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region)
(c) Jakub Kryštof Rad
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Kryštof_Rad
(Jacob Christoph Rad (1799-1871), in Czech Jakub Kryštof Rad, was a Swiss-born Czech entrepreneur who invented the sugar cubes in 1843 as a director of a sugar factory in Dačice in Moravia)
(d) The graphic depicts among other things: "Absinthe Spoon[:] Used to drizzle sugarly water into the anise-flavored drink"
(i) absinthiana
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthiana
(section 1 Absinthe spoon)

Just take a look at the spoons in that section, for its use will be discussed next.
(ii) absinthe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe
(a distilled, highly alcoholic (45–74% ABV / 90-148 proof) beverage; derived from [sugar in] botanicals, including the flowers and leaves of Artemisia absinthium (a.k.a. "grand wormwood"); originated in Switzerland in the late 18th century; association with bohemian culture; section 4 Preparation)
(iii) Artemisia (genus)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_(genus)
(section 1 Name)