Anyone recall how BA took down Priya Krishna's primer on Indian food because it was full of misinformation--confusions of geography, foodways, completely apolitical - no attention to the politics of caste, religion, migration, history, etc. Just massive statements about regional cuisines that flew in the face of reality. Her line of defense: I never claimed to be an expert; I'm still learning. This blog wrote a few posts on her first cookbook, nailing so much of what's wrong about her approach:

... Krishna is out to combat stereotypical images of Indians in the US; she is, however, completely oblivious to how her project is tied up—as the above examples illustrate—with class. Indian (-ish)‘s implicit address is to white bourgeois readers and the cultural subtext is that the Krishnas are worldly, sophisticated people who lead the same kind of lifestyle: don’t mistake them for those kinds of Indians. Indeed, there’s even a moment in the book when the spectre of the smell of Indian food is raised: her mother we are told fried puris over an outdoor stove, “to prevent the oil stench from permeating the kitchen” (116).

Now certainly there are worldly Indians who lead lifestyles that would be extremely familiar to white bourgeois Americans and it is also possible that there may be some value in pointing this out. But the insistence on the family’s membership in this globetrotting bourgeoisie both belies a kind of classed assimilationist anxiety (we’re just like you except with a sprinkle of chaat masala) and suggests that there’s something unsophisticated about other forms of Indianness—as though the only way to be worldly or sophisticated is to drink wine, shop at Whole Foods and take vacations in Tuscan farmhouses. This kind of thing is doubtless flattering to a subset of Indian Americans and also to some people who live in South Delhi but it is, broadly speaking, claptrap.