Eat Bitter

Name: Eat Bitter
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781784746315
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A Story About Guts and Food

By Lydia Pang

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Exciting, inspiring, genre-blending food memoir from a bold new voice with a strong platform, for readers of Crying in H Mart, Midnight Chicken, Butter. A beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings — with bite — for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight... Read More

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Description

Exciting, inspiring, genre-blending food memoir from a bold new voice with a strong platform, for readers of Crying in H Mart, Midnight Chicken, Butter.

A beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings — with bite — for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight Chicken.

'Touching, absorbing and unflinching... shows you how to stomach life's shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going' Angela Hui

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 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784746315

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Chatto & Windus

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 296g

Pages: 288

Collections

Biography & Memoir Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Education & Reference Lydia Pang Non-Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

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.