Ishita Dey, "Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal" (Routledge, 2025)

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Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal (Routledge, 2025) by Ishita Dey is an ethnographic work on excess. Based on a decade-long fieldwork of a single food substance – sweets – it follows sweet-making in sweetshops, dom...View more