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Food Origins and Ingredients
A dish and its ingredients do not always come from the country that made the dish famous. Tomatoes are associated with Italian cooking, but the plant was domesticated in the Americas.
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These questions separate origin from later fame. Cacao, potatoes, and arabica coffee are tied to the regions where the plants are native. Paella is asked as a dish associated with Spain, not as a claim that rice grows only there.
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