Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House - Couverture rigide

Mendelson, Cheryl

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743246047 ISBN 13 : 9780743246040

Editeur : Scribner, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Mendelson Cheryl

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"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)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0743246047
• ISBN 13: 9780743246040
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 896
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible