For context she's currently getting dragged on twitter for being weirdly racist about asian food 
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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It's a bad assessment, but that doesn't make it "weirdly racist".
I don't think it's really racist (beyond apparently not realizing that these ingredients are usually staples in their respective cuisines and she only needs to buy so many to cook one dish because it's the first one she's cooked, and it's not something specific to Asian food), but in the replies she categorizes any dish with a sauce as complicated so it's definitely ridiculous.
I mean, she also said she avoids basically all sauces since they tend not to be healthy, she just seems to have something of a preference for "simple" food.
She also did literally address that different people have different staples, and she's repeated that she's talking about around her, in America
Every culinary culture has its staple ingredients and its niche ingredients. Have I gone to a korean supermarket to buy a very specific sauce/paste for a recipe and then not use it again? Yeah definitely but also I use my Worcestershire sauce like twice a year at most and you’ll have to pry my sesame oil from my cold dead hands.
Yeah I don't know who any of these people are but she spoke to my experience as a manchild learning to cook in his twenties. There were lots of recipes where if I didn't have the staple already I'd be scared of it. The longer the list, the less likely I was to try it.
I'm a great cook now but I related to this exchange, and I really don't know who these people are so I can't defend any other of their takes.