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    From paella to kimchi, countries are using IP benchmarks to protect beloved national dishes

    Everybody gets upset when their ideas get stolen, and if that idea happens to be a beloved national dish, then get ready for sparks to fly. Perhaps because food is intimately tied to notions of cultural identity, improper culinary appropriation – or the perception of it – tends to make people extremely salty and the ensuring furore extra spicy.

    Recently, the government of Valencia – the reg