Grab a bagel with cream cheese and lox and head east to the intriguing, esoteric American Museum of Natural History, which is housed in a massive 19th-century Beaux Arts building off Central Park West.

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For somewhere seeped in history head to Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street.

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Aaron Foster, head buyer at Murray's Cheese in Manhattan, says he loves the line's sophisticated flavors, slick packaging and clever branding.

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"I taste one every day, " head chef Matt Orlando said of cheese cookies dusted with herbs whose flavors change with the season.

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"Surely, by now, visions of dogwoods and azaleas are dancing in your head and you can almost taste the pimento cheese sandwiches, " Golf Pride says in promoting its new, limited-edition, green-and-white grips.

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When you are not skiing, head to local farms that produce and sell reblochon to buy cheese straight from the source.

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In the cheese stakes, Switzerland loses out to Greece, but at 21 kilos a head it is not for want of trying.

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She picks at a plate of cheese in her lap while they pull her hair into a tight ponytail at the crown of her head and fashion it into a bun.

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Head to an American supermarket however, and eggs are always held in refrigerated units, like milk and cheese and other dairy products.

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