Washington Post Corrects Humor Column That Criticized Indian Food
thewrap.compiece, which is called, “You Can’t Make Me Eat These Foods.”The column about Weingarten’s disinterest in various flavors — from balsamic vinegar to Old Bay seasoning — was published last Thursday and received significant criticism for this now-altered line: “The Indian subcontinent has vastly enriched the world, giving us chess, buttons, the mathematical concept of zero, shampoo, modern-day nonviolent political resistance, Chutes and Ladders, the Fibonacci sequence, rock candy, cataract surgery, cashmere, USB ports … and the only ethnic cuisine in the world insanely based entirely on one spice.”On Sunday, Weingarten tweeted, “Took a lot of blowback for my dislike of Indian food in today’s column so tonight I went to Rasika, DC’s best Indian.
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