{"product_id":"eat-bitter","title":"Eat Bitter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• By \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLydia Pang\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRelease Date:\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMay 19, 2026\u003cbr\u003e• ISBN: 9780063487130\u003cbr\u003e• 288 Pages\u003cbr\u003e• \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEat bitter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComprising the satire and darkness of Netflix's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBeef\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the tender insight of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCrying in H Mart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the distinct magic of Ella Risbridger's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMidnight Chicken,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEat Bitter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a very special book from a brilliant new voice and creative talent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43317202387033,"sku":"978-0063487130","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0183\/6405\/files\/eatbitter.jpg?v=1778768839","url":"https:\/\/shop.givingtons.com\/products\/eat-bitter","provider":"Givington's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}