{"product_id":"eat-bitter-a-story-about-guts-and-food-lydia-pang","title":"Eat Bitter. A Story About Guts and Food. - Lydia Pang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEat bitter\u003c\/em\u003e 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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChatto \u0026amp; Windus, 2026 \u003cbr\u003eHardcover, 288pp \u003cbr\u003e223 x 144mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57388127388025,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks-6_07cdf6c0-db28-4f55-97a4-8ea7413ea44d.jpg?v=1780671695","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.live\/products\/eat-bitter-a-story-about-guts-and-food-lydia-pang","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}