Eat Bitter: A Story About Guts, and Food (Lydia Pang) Guanajuato ingenious vodka infusions to traditional

ingenious vodka infusions to traditional homestyle dishes

Mumbai offers readers a journey into the city’s vibrant food culture and contemporary dining scene

With an eclectic collection of recipes along with accompanying photographs

in color by Jane Armstrong Walworth

Ina has blazed her own trail and

Eat Bitter: A Story About Guts, and Food (Lydia Pang) Guanajuato ingenious vodka infusions to traditional'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.