Mindy Kaling and Padma Lakshmi slam article calling 'Indian cuisine one spice dish'

 Prominent stars Mindy Kaling and Padma Lakshmi took offense when one of media personalities made some remarks on Indian food in a recent post published by an international daily. media personality spoke lengths about Indian food and ' only ethnic cuisine in world insanely based entirely on one spice’ in his article. Reacting to article, Meena Harris, lawyer, and niece of US Vice President Kamala Harris, tweeted, "Apropos of absolutely thing name your ONE favorite Indian spice. I’ll go first: asafoetida."

Mindy Kaling, Padma Lakshmi slam post that said 'Indian cuisine has only one spice'

Followed by Meena were Mindy and Pama Lakshmi who shared ir love for Indian spices. Replying to her tweet, Mindy Kaling said, "I love fenugreek! re are so many spices in this wonderful cuisine!" She also tweeted, "You don’t like a cuisine? Fine. But it’s so weird to feel defiantly proud of t liking a cuisine. You can quietly t like something too."

Padma Lakshmi in a series of tweets said, "What in white nsense is this?" She added, "Is this really type of colonizer 'hot take' @washingtonpost wants to publish in 2021- sardonically characterizing curry as 'one spice' and that all of India's cuisine is based on it?" She also shared a screenshot of article that read, "Indian food. Indian subcontinent has vastly enriched world, giving us chess, buttons, mamatical concept of zero, shampoo, modern-day nviolent political resistance, Chutes and Ladders, Fibonacci sequence, rock candy, cataract surgery, cashmere, USB ports ... and only ethnic cuisine in world insanely based entirely on one spice. If you like Indian curries, yay, you like Indian food! If you think Indian curries taste like something that could kck a vulture off a meat wagon, you do t like Indian food."

Apart from venting out on Twitter, Padma also took to Instagram and shared a lengthy te reacting to piece. A part of her te read, "re is truly need for something like this to be published in 2021 (or ever). It’s racist and lazy at best. My issue is t this person’s performative contrarianism (although it is tedious) or that he didn’t enjoy Indian cuisines he’s tasted."

IM: AP