{"product_id":"eat-bitter-a-story-about-guts-and-food","title":"Eat Bitter: A Story About Guts and Food","description":"\u003cp\u003eExciting, inspiring, genre-blending food memoir from a bold new voice with a strong platform, for readers of Crying in H Mart, Midnight Chicken, Butter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Touching, absorbing and unflinching... shows you how to stomach life's shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going' Angela Hui\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEat 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\u003cp\u003eEat Bitter is a beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings - with bite - for fans of Crying in H Mart, Butter and Midnight Chicken.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48563672088799,"sku":"9781784746315","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781784746315.jpg?v=1772616656","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/eat-bitter-a-story-about-guts-and-food","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}