Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

The classic bestselling resource for every American household, Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the...
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Author: Cheryl Mendelson
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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Mendelson, Cheryl

Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

$49.83

Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

$49.83
Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The classic bestselling resource for every American household, Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home.

Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food. --USA TODAY

For the first time in nearly a century, here is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. Far from a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, a history book, or an encyclopedia compiled by a committee or an institute, Home Comforts is a readable guide for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts. Including 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 germs, watering plants, removing stains--this guide covers everything that modern people might want to do for themselves in their homes.

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, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art and science of household management.

Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/17/2005
Pages: 896
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.60w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780743272865


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 108

About the Author
Cheryl Mendelson is a Harvard Law School graduate, a sometime philosophy professor, a novelist (Morningside Heights and Love, Work, Children), and a homemaker by choice. Born into a rural family in Greene County, Pennsylvania, she now lives in New York City with her husband and son

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