Epicureans delight in a menu chock-full of gourmet dishes like peach-marinated grilled cobia, dry-aged New York strip, and roasted Chilean seabass.

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Ms. Karmel recently organized a blind taste-test for friends that included rib eye, New York strip and skirt steak, all cooked with nothing but salt and pepper.

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The auctioneer explains that higher prices would drive the sector to increase supply and offer competitive prices for high-grade cuts such as those used for a fillet mignon or a New York strip, at the same time giving domestic consumers good availability of lower-quality, but still superb, meat.

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When Kevin Rudd admitted to public drunkenness at a strip club in New York - which was probably the first time most people around the world first got to hear about him - he was in the company of Col Allan, the Australian editor of the Murdoch-owned New York Post.

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Only once I hit Los Angeles, en route to New York, did this become part of the strip search.

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New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that strip clubs aren't entitled to sales-tax exemptions granted to higher-brow entertainment such as ballets and operas.

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It turns out that in the state of New York, since 1965, sales taxes are imposed on the fees paid by patrons at strip clubs.

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After placing his first cartoon (about a man who broke out of jail for the seventh time) in a local Swiss newspaper at the age of 20, he worked his way to America, where he was employed first by the New York Times as an illustrator, then by Newsweek, which hired him to write a comic strip.

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