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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0743272862
ISBN-13
9780743272865
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43544457
Product Key Features
Book Title
Home Comforts : the Art and Science of Keeping House
Number of Pages
896 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Decorating, Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing, General, Repair
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
House & Home
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
30.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-037555
Reviews
There's only one book to own if you want to be serious about your housekeeping: Cheryl Mendelson's magesterial HOME COMFORTS., "An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next." -- Newsweek, "An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next." --Newsweek
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
640
Table Of Content
Contents Preface BEGINNINGS 1 My Secret Life 2 Easing into a Routine 3 Neatening FOOD 4 The Whys and Wherefores of Home Cooking 5 Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner 6 Serving Meals 7 Stimulating Beverages 8 The Center of a Dwelling 9 Kitchen Culture 10 To Market, to Market 11 Cold Comfort 12 Bread and Honey 13 Safe Food CLOTH 14 The Fabric of Your Home 15 Transformations 16 The Natural Fibers 17 The Man-Made Fibers and Blends 18 Fabrics That Work 19 Carefully Disregarding Care Labels 20 Gathering, Storing, and Sorting Laundry 21 Laundering 22 Drying the Laundry 23 Ironing 24 Folding Clothes and Linens 25 How to Launder Tricky Items 26 Common Laundry Mishaps and Problems 27 Sanitizing the Laundry 28 Removing Stains from Fabrics CLEANLINESS 29 The Air in Your Castle 30 Peaceful Coexistence with Microbes 31 The Chemistry of Household Cleaning 32 Aprons, Rags, and Mops 33 Dust and Dust Mites 34 Vacuuming, Sweeping, and Dusting 35 Textile Furnishings 36 Floors and Furniture of Wood and Woodlike Materials 37 Resilient Floors 38 Ceramic Tile 39 Stone 40 Man-Made Solid Surfaces and Other Plastics 41 Bathrooms 42 Pipes and Drains 43 Walls, Ceilings, Woodwork, and Windows 44 China and Crystal 45 Metals 46 Caring for Jewelry DAILY LIFE 47 Kindly Light 48 Fireplaces 49 Some Quiet Occupations 50 Sewing 51 Caring for Books 52 Music 53 Images and Recordings 54 Home Offices and Computers 55 Pets SLEEP 56 The Cave of Nakedness 57 Beds and Bedding 58 Closets for Clothes and Linens SAFE SHELTER 59 Being Prepared 60 Fire 61 Electrical Safety 62 Slips and Falls 63 Further Miscellaneous Safety Rules 64 Poisons, Hazardous Substances, and Proper Disposal of Hazardous Household Wastes 65 Additional Safety Measures for Children FORMALITIES 66 Understanding Your Castle 67 Too Late to Say You're Sorry 68 Promises, Promises 69 Domestic Employment Laws 70 Working with Household Help 71 Insurance 72 Fond Records NOTES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES INDEX PREFACE
Synopsis
A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to 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 Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table--this guide covers everything that 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, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management., 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.
LC Classification Number
TX145.M38 1999
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