Home Comforts
Subtitle: The Art & Science of Keeping House
By: Cheryl Mendelson ; illustrations by Harry Bates.
Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. (3)
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 884
ISBN-13: 9780743272865
Copyright date: 19991
Subjects: Home economics.
Description: 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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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [847]-855) and index.