Eat Bitter: A Story About Guts, and Food by Lydia Pang

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One of the Must-Read Books To Have On Your Radar in 2026–Service95From a dazzling new writer, a stirring memoir rooted in Hakka culture about the lesson to accept both bitterness and sweetness in lifeEat 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 burning out, testing her marriage, navigating fertility struggles and caring for a parent. Through eight recipes, she shares food as memory and 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.