{"product_id":"9781784746308","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Eat Bitter : A Story About Guts and Food by Lydia Pang","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 14\/05\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings - with bite - for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight Chicken.   `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.   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  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369153769845,"sku":"9781784746308","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784746308.jpg?v=1763552283","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784746308","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}