A celebrity chef who recently launched a cafe in Kent says she has been targeted by "bullying trolls" after making a blunder while promoting a curry night.

Gizzi Erskine described the event at the Love Cafe in Margate as an "Indian curry night", despite its menu featuring dishes from Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

London-born Ms Erskine, 42, shared news of the curry night - featuring a tarka dhal recipe "stolen" from popular Pakistani restaurant Tayyabs, and a Sri Lankan Beetroot and coconut curry - to her 200,000 Instagram followers.

But her error was soon picked up on, and food industry commentator and cookbook author Mallika Basu took to Twitter to highlight the mistake.

Ms Basu, who was born in Kolkata, India, wrote: "A celeb chef is hosting 'curry night' with recipes from 'across India', including recipes from Tayyabs (Pakistani) and Sri Lanka.

"I slid politely into her DMs to flag neither were in India. She snarled back changing India to 'Indian Asian Continent'."

She continued: "If you're working with the food of other cultures, please do your research.

"Best not to confuse the food of nations or geography generally, or to use reductive terms the community/culture you're not from and commercialising hates."

She also described Ms Erskine's attitude to being corrected as "rude, at best. Entitled at worst."

One social media user queried: "What the heck is 'Indian Asian Continent'?"

Others urged Ms Erskine to "take [the] advice graciously".

Ms Erskine, who has published a number of cookbooks and regularly appears on TV, has since amended her post once again.

It now describes Love Cafe's curry night as "celebrating classic curries from all over Asia".

She has also hit back at her critics on Instagram, slamming those “telling me I’m a white girl who’s not entitled to cook Asian food”.

"I spent almost 10 years in Thailand and learnt to cook with some very famous south-east Asian chefs," she wrote.

“Stop trying to cancel people for getting a small term wrong. This whole thing is tiresome. Educate. Don’t humiliate.”

She says has been subjected to online bullying since Ms Basu's post, with someone reportedly saying she should be "kicked in the head".

Responding directly to Ms Basu on Twitter, she wrote: "I hope you’re happy with the bullying trolling I’m now getting too. Seriously. A mistake. A bloody mistake."

Ms Basu has since taken to Twitter to urge her 15,000 followers: "Please do not bully or troll."

She added: "I never named anyone and it was a genuine mistake with a lesson to learn for all. I do not condone attacking anyone and wished the curry night every success in the DM I sent."

Ms Erskine is set to launch the weekly curry night at the new Love Cafe in Margate, which she has helped found along with Libertines frontman Carl Barat.

The cafe launched in Marine Gardens in September, promising "great British seaside food with a modern and playful twist".

Ms Erskine is working on the project with Barat, his partner Edie Langley, and music manager Ronnie Traynor.

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