Sweet Excess. Crafting Mishti in Bengal, Paperback

This book encapsulates the socio-cultural meanings of sweets - ritual, pride of craftsmanship, heritage and cultural identity. It also shows how sweets continue to be a part of ‘Bengali’ diet with a past of acute hunger, starvation, food movements and social welfare programmes for food security.

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Author(s): Ishita Dey
• Illustration(s): 10 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 36 Halftones, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
• Number of pages: 242
• Collection: Ethnographic Innovations, South Asian Perspectives
• Publication date: 2025
• Dimensions: 232 x 157 x 25
• Cover type: Paperback / softback