Eat Bitter, 9781784746308
Hardcover
Endure hardship, taste sweetness: a poignant food journey of resilience.
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Eat Bitter

A Story About Guts and Food

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  • Hardcover

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    20 June 2026

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Summary

Eat 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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784746308
ISBN-10:1784746304
Author:Lydia Pang
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Chatto & Windus
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:20 June 2026
Weight:500g
Dimensions:222mm x 138mm x 40mm
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Critics Review

‘A beautiful book about family and food … potent, honest, and unapologetic …I wolfed it down’ * Emma Gannon *‘A riveting nosedive into the blood and guts of food, family and self compassion. Lydia Pang writes with raw passion straight from the heart, leaving us well fed, but still ravenous for more. A beautiful book.’ * Tobi Coventry *

About The Author

Lydia Pang

Lydia Pang (She/Her) is a Frankenstein, misfit Creative Director with a decade of experience in brand building. Lydia is the Co-Founder of M RNING, a London based, creative strategy and cultural foresight studio. She judged Clio Awards, D&AD and was a Cannes Lions delegate. She’s worked in media, advertising agencies and brands in New York and Portland, always in hybrid creative roles honing her passion for digital storytelling and trend mapping. She has given talks on ethical commissioning and the future of branding at Instagram and NYTimes, and written articles for Refinery29, Riposte, Vogue, Elle, and Dazed.

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