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Expected May 19, 2026. Available for pre-order now!
‘Eat bitter’is a Chinese proverb meaning endure hardship to taste sweetness.’ For Lydia Pang, it embodies the struggles of her Hakka ancestors, a Chinese ethnic group subjected to forced migrations whose ingenuity produced a distinct food culture based on 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.
Comprising the satire and darkness of Netflix’s Beef, the tender insight ofCrying in H Mart, and the distinct magic of Ella Risbridger’sMidnight Chicken,Eat Bitteris a very special book from a brilliant new voice and creative talent.
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