Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (Spiral Bound)

Name: Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (Spiral Bound)
Brand: Scribner Book Company
SKU: SPTM-9780743272865
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Biographical Note:
Cheryl Mendelson is a Harvard Law School graduate, a sometime philosophy professor, a novelist ( Morningside Heights and Love, Work, Children), and a homemaker by choice. Born into a rural family in Greene County, Pennsylvania, she now lives in New York City with her husband and son

Table of Contents:

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

Review Quotes:
"The bible of good housekeeping."
-- People

Marc Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [847]-855) and index.

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

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

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

Review Quotes:
"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"

Publisher Marketing:
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.

Review Citations:

Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 108 (EAN 9780743272865, Paperback)
Wilson Nonfiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780743272865, Paperback)
Library Journal 08/01/1999 pg. 129 (EAN 9780684814650, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
Publishers Weekly 10/04/1999 pg. 71 (EAN 9780684814650, Hardcover)
People Weekly 11/01/1999 pg. 59 (EAN 9780684814650, Hardcover)
Newsweek 11/08/1999 pg. 96 (EAN 9780684814650, Hardcover)
New York Times 12/19/1999 pg. 12 (EAN 9780684814650, Hardcover)
Commonweal 12/07/2001 pg. 25 (EAN 9780684814650, Hardcover)
Wilson Nonfiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780684814650, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Mendelson, Cheryl
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.