Padma Lakshmi was among those left with a sour taste in her mouth after reading a Washington Post opinion column that inaccurately dismissed Indian cuisine as being based entirely on one spice.

Written by humor columnist Gene Weingarten and published last week, You Cant Make Me Eat These Foods focuses on the authors distaste for sweet pickles, balsamic vinegar, hot dogs with more than two toppings, and other menu items and ingredients.

Weingarten claimed that Indian food, in particular, is the only ethnic cuisine in the world insanely based entirely on one spice.

If you think Indian curries taste like something that could knock a vulture off a meat wagon, you do not like Indian food, he wrote. I dont get it, as a culinary principle.

Lakshmi, who hosts Top Chef and the Hulu series Taste the Nation , responded to Weingartens piece with a series of scathing posts on social media.

There is truly no need for something like this to be published in 2021 (or ever), the 50-year-old, who was born in India, wrote on Instagram . Its racist and lazy at best.