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FOOD: Those with a taste for expensive ham and the means to pay for it will be tantalized by tonight’s one-night-only 5 course tasting menu at Suba, a Spanish restaurant on the Lower East Side. Chef Seamus Mullen has obtained the prized “Rolls Royce of Ham” – Jamón Ibérico – and will be offering it tonight with Ossabaw Island hogs and Iberian wine. There are just a few seatings still available for tonight's event, which will also feature a winter salad with raw artichokes and pine mushrooms and a gnocchi dish with littleneck clams, among other delicacies. If the $110 price tag seems steep for the tasting menu and wine pairings, just think: The first shipments of ibérico ham that arrived last month after USDA restrictions were lifted cost $90-$99 a pound at Despaña. – John Del Signore

We think the best bargains in the city for physical activities are to be found at the fitness centers run by the Parks Department. The Asser Levy Recreation Center, which is located at 23rd street and FDR Drive, has weekly classes in Karate, Tai Chi, and Tai Ji/Qi. For $75 per year -that’s the MONTHLY cost for some fancy gyms- you can join the center, which also happens to have an indoor pool and a fitness room.