{"product_id":"eat-bitter","title":"Eat Bitter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the Must-Read Books To Have On Your Radar in 2026—Service95 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a dazzling new writer, a stirring memoir rooted in Hakka culture about the lesson to accept both bitterness and sweetness in life 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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. Comprising the satire and darkness of Netflix's Beef, the tender insight of Crying in H Mart, and the distinct magic of Ella Risbridger's Midnight Chicken, Eat Bitter is a very special book from a brilliant new voice and creative talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48130296709278,"sku":"9780063487130","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0783\/0657\/4494\/files\/9780063487130-cover-4780306e67968dca73a4.jpg?v=1786559267","url":"https:\/\/tavolabooks.com\/products\/eat-bitter","provider":"Tavola Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}