Eat Bitter – A Story About Guts and Food

Description Temporarily out of stock ISBN: 9781784746315Title: Eat Bitter – A Story About Guts and FoodAuthor: PANG LYDIA Exciting, inspiring, genre-blending food memoir from a bold new voice with a strong platform, for readers of Crying in H Mart, Midnight Chicken, Butter A beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings – with bite – for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight Chicken.‘Touching, absorbing and unflinching… shows you how to stomach life’s shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going’ Angela HuiEat bitter is a Chinese proverb meaning ‘endure hardship to taste sweetness.’ For Lydia Pang, it embodies the struggles of her Hakka ancestors, a persecuted Chinese ethnic group whose ingenuity shaped a food culture rooted in fermenting and foraging.Pang reimagines eating bitter as a philosophy to confront her own challenges- burning out, testing her marriage, navigating fertility struggles and caring for a parent. Through eight recipes, she shares food as memory and medicine- the silly egg noodles her father cooked when her sister was ill, the bone broth she boiled in New York while homesick and courgettes grown in rural Wales as a gesture of reconnection. Format: Trade PaperPublication date: 14/05/2026Pages: 288Temporarily out of stock