Eat Bitter

Kirjan Eat Bitter (2026) on kirjoittanut Lydia Pang. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Vintage Publishing. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 304 sivua ja se on sidottu.

<p><b>‘Touching, absorbing and unflinching… shows you how to stomach life’s shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going' Angela Hui

Eat 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.

<i>Eat Bitter is a beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings – with bite – for fans of <i>Crying in H Mart, Butter and <i>Midnight Chicken.