Home Comforts - by Cheryl Mendelson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Mendelson addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping with a keen sense of the history and values involved. The result is a warm, good-humored, engagingly written book with a message and a point of view, one that is overflowing with useful reflections and information.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The classic bestselling resource for every American household, <i>Home Comforts</i> addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home.</b> <p/><b><i>Home Comforts</i> is to the house what <i>Joy of Cooking</i> is to food. --<i>USA TODAY</i></b> <p/>For the first time in nearly a century, here is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. Far from a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, a history book, or an encyclopedia compiled by a committee or an institute, <i>Home Comforts</i> is a readable guide for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts. Including 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 germs, watering plants, removing stains--this guide covers everything that modern people might want to do for themselves in their homes. <p/>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, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art and science of household management.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Home Comforts</i> is to the house what <i>Joy of Cooking</i> is to food. <br>-- <i>USA Today</i><br><br>An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next. -- <i>Newsweek</i><br><br>Mesmerizing -- and, in its own way, revolutionary. -- <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i><br><br>The bible of good housekeeping. <br> -- People<br><br>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"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Cheryl Mendelson</b> is a Harvard Law School graduate, a sometime philosophy professor, a novelist (<i>Morningside Heights</i> and <i>Love, Work, Children), </i> 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
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