11.   Plants can be placed in galvanized pails, copper pots, recycled washing machines and bathtubs, wooden crates and barrels.

12.   Professionals use an unlined copper pot with a funnel-shape hollow metal handle, into which they shove a length of wooden broomstick.

13.   Q. I have many copper pots and pans that do wonders when I cook, but never hold a shine.

14.   Racks gleam with copper pots and skillets, chosen for even cooking.

15.   Sensing that something might be missing, a waiter rushed over with a small copper pot filled with breaded and fried porcini mushrooms.

16.   Side dishes such as truffled cream spinach, melted heirloom tomatoes and baby vegetables are served in tiny copper pots or oversized compote bowls.

17.   Ten, Tanqueray prefers hand-picked whole fresh fruit and botanicals and small copper pot stills for the distillation.

18.   The menu offers solid French standards like pot au feu in a copper pot, its top sealed with a strip of dough.

19.   The kitchen at Jean Georges usually resembles a ballet studio, with chefs moving fluidly with their copper pots and white plates.

20.   The rare times it rained, we retreated to the glass-enclosed veranda, done up with copper pots and crystal chandeliers.