Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House

Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House

by Cheryl Mendelson (Author)

Synopsis

A huge critical and popular success in the US, HOME COMFORTS has established itself as the book that no household should be without. Its scope is truly comprehensive - from setting the table to folding sheets, from the bedroom's ideal humidity to choosing a cookbook, from baking to bacteria - no subject within the realms of domesticity has been left untouched. 'HOME COMFORTS in its own way, is revolutionary. Nothing quite this Beetonesque has been published in decades it is a manifesto in praise and defence of the home' - Daily Telegraph 'A delight, the book reads like a physiological, updated edition of Mrs Beeton' - The Times 'An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next' - Newsweek 'With breathtaking comprehensiveness, every domestic task you might have thought of - and many you will not -Ois explained sensibly, lucidly and in mesmerising detail' - Daily Telegraph 'HOME COMFORTS is riveting. Wonderful even...the book is packed with genuinely useful, even fascinating information...no truly comfortable house should be without a copy' - Literary Review

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 896
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 13 Jun 2002

ISBN 10: 1841881805
ISBN 13: 9781841881805
Book Overview: Huge bestseller in the USA - over 200,000 copies printed Advice on every imaginable aspect of domestic management for the modern home in one volume A reference book for the experienced, step-by-step manual for beginners

Media Reviews
An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next. -- Newsweek
Author Bio
Cheryl Mendelson received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Rochester and her JD from Harvard Law School. She has practised law in New York and taught philosophy at Purdue and Columbia Universities.