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"  Baby Blue Ivy isn&amp;#039;t the only precious property of Jay-Z and his wife Beyonc\u00E9. He also cares about his food. So much so that he has slapped his former chef with a $1.5 million lawsuit over a spice mix recipe. More From Delish: 8 Unbelievable Food Lawsuits The secret spice mix was used to coat the chicken wings at Jay-Z&amp;#039;s club 40/40 in New York City, which are a favorite menu item. According to the New York Post&amp;#039;s gossip column Page Six, chef Mike Shand was hired to revamp the menu of the sports club earlier this year. He was subsequently fired, according to the court papers, for, &amp;quot;costing the club lost profits, loss of good will [and] alienation of clientele.&amp;quot; Shand&amp;#039;s lawyer Vik Pawar told the New York Post that in fact the spice mix recipe was one Shand already had in his culinary repertoire. &amp;quot;The spice-mix recipe that Mike developed is his own recipe. 40/40 terminated him, then had the audacity to sue him for his recipes. He gave them all apart from this spice mix because it is his own.&amp;quot; More From Delish: Restaurants Go to Court for Right to Serve Heart Attack-Inducing Food Jay-Z is not the first celeb to have a beef over recipes. Jessica Seinfeld, wife of Jerry and author of Deceptively Delicious, was sued in 2010 by Missy Chase Lapine, who accused her of stealing recipes from her cookbook, The Sneaky Chef. According to the New York Daily News, the case was dismissed by the judge, who said to Lapine, &amp;quot;You make purees and put them in these recipes? That&amp;#039;s it?&amp;quot; The judge followed up with, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think one needs much cooking expertise to know this.&amp;quot; In other Seinfeld news, ABC News reports the real-life &amp;quot;Soup Nazi&amp;quot; was sued in June by Soup Kitchen International, which claimed to own the chef&amp;#039;s company name, The Soup Man and those famous soup recipes that sparked the parody on the popular sitcom Seinfeld. The multi-million dollar legal battle may mean no soup for you, Soup Nazi! Do you think anyone can &amp;quot;own&amp;quot; a recipe?  Find more great food content on Delish: Search for the perfect recipe from our homepage Find out the latest food news Get a recipe book to save your favorite dishes Sign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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