Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
by Cheryl Mendelson Author
(From Amazon): 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.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0743272862
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 72
- Pages
- 896
- Suggested Grades
- 7th - 12th
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Copyright
- 2005
Chapters
- 1 My Secret Life
- 2 Easing into a Routine
- 3 Neatening
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 47 Kindly Light
- 48 Fireplaces
- 49 Some Quiet Occupations
- 50 Sewing
- 51 Caring for Books
- 52 Music
- 53 Images and Recordings
- 54 Home Office and Computers
- 55 Pets
- 56 The Cave of Nakedness
- 57 Beds and Bedding
- 58 Closets for Clothes and Linens
- 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
- 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
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