{"product_id":"eat-bitter","title":"Eat Bitter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings – with bite – for fans of \u003ci\u003eCrying in H Mart \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMidnight Chicken.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Touching, absorbing and unflinching… shows you how to stomach life’s shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going' Angela Hui\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56244043940184,"sku":"9781784746308","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781784746308.jpg?v=1779948050","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/eat-bitter","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}