Swift, efficient hands removed the soiled dishes and replaced them with platters of cheese and flatbread, more wine, and a pot suspended in a porcelain frame over an open flame.

The first carried a small earthenware pot, suspended from a hemp net, which had recently been heating over one of the fires.

The city celebrated its 865th anniversary on September 10 by cooking 865kgs (1,907lbs) of oatmeal in a pot suspended from a 20ft tripod on one of the city's main squares.

Baird shamelessly ordered a couple of unlucky privates to carry it over to the clearing, the pot suspended between them on a broad tree branch.

Traditional methods favor the use of plastic buckets with the plant contained in a net pot suspended from the center of the lid and the roots suspended in the nutrient solution.

In Jeu de la Terre, teams were faced with a series of pots suspended from an arch.

They left Saturday and steamed to an offshore area where they have groups of 50 pots, called trawls, suspended below buoys and lines.

One tree branch supports an elaborate pitched roof made of corrugated plastic; a more crooked one is a hanger for pots and pans suspended on hooks.

There was a smell of burning and he glanced round to see that the men had lit a small bonfire and over it swung a pot suspended from a tripod of three tree branches.

A blue flame heated the water under a little steel-bottomed pot suspended over it on a chain.