Home Comforts: The Art And Science Of Keeping House - Brossura

Mendelson, Cheryl

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743272862 ISBN 13: 9780743272865

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2005

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"The bible of good housekeeping."
-- People

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

"Mesmerizing -- and, in its own way, revolutionary." -- Chicago Sun-Times

"An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next." -- Newsweek

"There's only one book to own if you want to be serious about your housekeeping: Cheryl Mendelson's magesterial HOME COMFORTS." (Dwight Garner The New York Times)

L'autore:

Cheryl Mendelson received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rochester and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has practiced law in New York City and has taught philosophy at Purdue and Columbia Universities. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743272862
• ISBN 13: 9780743272865
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 884
• Disegnatore: Bates Harry