150 Delectable Desserts · By Geeta Gwalani

A celebration of India’s oldest sweetener — and the desserts it made extraordinary.

Before refined sugar arrived and changed everything, India’s sweets were made with gur. Jaggery. The ancient, unrefined sweetener pressed from sugarcane and palm — dark, complex, mineral-rich, and deeply, warmly sweet in a way that no white sugar has ever quite matched.

For the Greater Gur is Geeta Gwalani’s tribute to this ingredient and to the extraordinary desserts it has given India across centuries and across regions. 150 recipes. One ingredient at the heart of all of them.

This is not a book about health food or clean eating, though gur happens to be both. It is a book about flavour, tradition, and the wisdom embedded in the way India has always cooked its sweets.

The book travels across India — North, East, West, South — gathering the desserts that gur has always made possible, and presenting them in photography that is closer to fine art than food styling. Brass idols. Antique vessels. Marigold and rose petals. The colors of devotion and celebration.

This is a book about sweetness — not just in food, but in memory, in culture, and in the way India has always known how to celebrate the ordinary moments of life.

150 jaggery-based dessert recipes · Recipes spanning North, South, East & West India · Full-color art photography throughout · Hardcover

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