Washington Post column that disparaged Indian food prompts backlash, a correction and an apology
"Top Chef" and "Taste the Nation" host and executive producer Padma Lakshmi tweeted screenshots of the column and asked: "What in the white nonsense is this?" Gene Weingarten, columnist and humorist at The Washington Post, in Washington, D.C., in 2014. The Washington Post this week published a correction and a rebuttal to a humor column after backlash over the writer's take on Indian food as "the only ethnic food in the world based entirely on one spice." In his weekly column in The Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten penned a list of foods he doesn't like to sarcastically dispute criticism that he "like a toddler I seem to categorically dislike, and whine about, many foods." Along with Old Bay seasoning, balsamic vinegar, bleu cheese ("rhymes with 'eeuuu cheese'"), he listed Indian food. "The Indian subcontinent has vastly enriched the world, giving us chess, buttons, the mathematical concept of z