Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House

Name: Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House
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ISBN: 9780743272865

By: Cheryl Meldelson

Simon & Schuster / 2005 / Paperback

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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 - this book 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.

Product Information

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Title: Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House
By: Cheryl Meldelson
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 884
Vendor: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 2005

Dimensions: 9.25 X 6.50 X 1.50 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 16 ounces
ISBN: 0743272862
ISBN-13: 9780743272865
Stock No: WW3272862

Publisher's Description

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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.

Author Bio

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Cheryl Mendelson is a Harvard Law School graduate, a sometime philosophy professor, and a novelist (Morningside Heights and Love, Work, Children). In 1999, she authored the classic bestselling resource for every American household, Home Comforts. Born into a rural family in Greene County, Pennsylvania, she lives in New York City with her husband.

Editorial Reviews

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"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." -- The New York Times