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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House Paperback - 2005
by Cheryl Mendelson
Mendelson addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping with a keen sense of the history and values involved. The result is a warm, good-humored, engagingly written book with a message and a point of view, one that is overflowing with useful reflections and information.
Summary
The classic bestselling resource for every American home. Choosing fabrics, cleaning china, keeping the piano in tune, making a good fire, folding a fitted sheet, setting the dining room table, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, watering plants, removing stains -- Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of hands -- on housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home.
Further topics include: Making up a bed with hospital corners, Expert recommendations for safe food storage, Reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), Keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, Home safety and security, A summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident liability, contracts, and domestic employees and more in this practical, good-humored, historic, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art of household management.
Further topics include: Making up a bed with hospital corners, Expert recommendations for safe food storage, Reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), Keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, Home safety and security, A summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident liability, contracts, and domestic employees and more in this practical, good-humored, historic, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art of household management.
Details
- Title Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
- Author Cheryl Mendelson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 896
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
- Date 2005-05-17
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780743272865 / 0743272862
- Weight 2.65 lbs (1.20 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.6 x 1.6 in (23.37 x 16.76 x 4.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Home economics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005279528
- Dewey Decimal Code 640
Media reviews
"An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next." -- Newsweek
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 05/01/2005, Page 108
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