{"product_id":"9781784746308","title":"Eat Bitter : A Story About Guts and Food","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Pang, Lydia \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 14\/05\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 288 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784746308,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings – with bite – for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight Chicken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePang 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57005378306421,"sku":"9781784746308","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781784746308.jpg?v=1774689183","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781784746308","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}