The deliciously charred duck also came with wild rice in a potato basket.

It is then deboned and served with pan juices along with a potato basket holding celery-root puree.

I never ate it in a potato basket, though Mr. Beard mentions them along with rice nests, patty shells and croustades, croustades being baskets of toasted bread.

The bigger boys were playing hockey with old taped sticks and using a couple of potato baskets for goals.

It is chicken, beef, veal and Chinese vegetables in a potato basket.

And the potato basket, in which potatoes were stored in the kitchen, is a sturdy ribbed affair with handles formed by openings in the weave.

The fried assortment is served in a potato basket that crackles deliciously when you break into it.

The result is an unappealing pile of food that suffers by comparison with what is served in other restaurants; Amarcord, for instance, presents this dish in a beautiful potato basket.

Fried calamari and zucchini are hot, crisp and served in a pretty potato basket.

The menu silliness starts with combinations like gamy and tender venison combined with a potato basket holding dryish roast quail camouflaged by sprigs of fresh herbs.