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Home Comforts : the Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Home Comforts : the Art and Science of Keeping House about?
"Home Comforts" is something new. For the first time in nearly a century, a sole author has written a comprehensive book about housekeeping. This is not a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, a cleaning book, a history book, or an arid encyclopedia compiled by a committee or an institute. "Home Comforts" is a readable explanation for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts -- choosing fabrics, keeping the piano in tune, caring for books, making a good fire in the fireplace and avoiding chimney fires, ironing and folding, setting up a good reading light, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, and everything else that modern people might want to do for themselves in their homes. But this reliable and thorough book on the practicalities of housekeeping is also an argument for the importance of private life and the comforts offered by housekeeping.Cheryl Mendelson is a philosopher, lawyer, sometime professor, and a homemaker, wife, and mother. "Home Comforts" is based on her domestic education, which she acquired while growing up on a farm in the hills of Greene County, in southwestern Pennsylvania, from her grandmothers, aunts, and mother. Learning
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- Author
- Cheryl Mendelson
- Publisher
- Scribner; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780684814650
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Home & Lifestyle, Cooking, Crafts & Hobbies
- Rating
- 4.13 / 5 (75 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14