Eat bitter : a story about guts, and food : endure pain to taste sweetness / Lydia Pang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pang, Lydia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pang, Lydia.

Pang, Lydia--Family.

Hakka (Chinese people)--Wales--Biography.

Hakka (Chinese people).

Hakka (Chinese people)--Social life and customs.

Chinese Americans--Biography.

Chinese Americans.

Cooking, Chinese--Social aspects.

Cooking, Chinese.

Cooking, Hakka.

China.

Philosophy.

Self-actualization (Psychology).

Families.

Forced migration.

Ethnic groups.

Genre:

cookbooks.

Recipes

History

Biographies

Memoirs.

Autobiographies.

Cookbooks.

Physical Description:

276 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]

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 Chinese ethnic group subjected to forced migrations whose ingenuity produced a distinct food culture based on 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. Comprising the satire and darkness of Netflix's Beef, the tender insight of Crying in H Mart, and the distinct magic of Ella Risbridger's Midnight Chicken, Eat Bitter is a very special book from a brilliant new voice and creative talent." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Silly egg noodles

Radiator char siu

Wishbone tuna

Lipstick on a carcass

Hot mess wontons

Scruffy sacred salad

Bleeding banana bread

Wrinkly congee

Acknowledgments.

ISBN:

9780063487130

0063487136

OCLC:

1590789839