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Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson (1999, Hardcover, Illustrated)

Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: 1999-11-04
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 068481465X
ISBN-13: 9780684814650
Product ID: EPID567802
Description: This modern guide to housekeeping tells how to simplify domestic chores, and argues that readers can find financial and spiritual empowerment by properly managing their households. This reference guide advises on a wide range of topics, ...
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Synopsis
This modern guide to housekeeping tells how to simplify domestic chores, and argues that readers can find financial and spiritual empowerment by properly managing their households. This reference guide advises on a wide range of topics, including fabric care, food preservation, allergen removal, and domestic employee management. Illustrations throughout.

Details
Publication Date:1999-11-04
Illustrator:Harry Bates
Edition Description:Illustrated

Size
Length:884 pages
Height:10.0 in
Width:6.8 in
Thickness:2.0 in
Weight:48.8 oz

Publisher's Note
A philosopher and a lawyer, Cheryl Mendelson is a professional woman with a secret passion: she enjoys keeping house. At a time when domesticity is devalued, she launders and cleans expertly, is a relaxed, creative cook, and invests considerable time and energy in keeping a well-functioning, cheerful, and welcoming home. Now she shares the knowledge she has amassed about every aspect of home life -- from germ consciousness to the finer points of cleaning and laundering (and deciphering garment labels). Wonderfully instructive chapters cover such topics as care for books and musical instruments, the role of the domestic animal, home safety, and even keeping a home office. Mendelson applies her investigative skills, logic, and intuition to the traditional methods of housekeeping that she learned in her rural girlhood. The result is a contemporary interpretation of the arts of housekeeping that strikes a happy balance between the values of the old and the ease of the new. She now passes along priceless advice, updated for a new generation, explaining, historically and philosophically not only how but why to keep order at home. Writing in a warm, lucid, and authoritative voice, she restores the dignity of this traditionally female realm, without excluding the many men who also enjoy domestic activities. Home Comforts is one volume that no one will want to be without.

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"I applaud Ms. Mendelson's brief for the home; since reading HOME COMFORTS, I have separated some laundry, reorganized a closet and cleaned out the drawers of my refrigerator, all definite improvements. Yet very few contemporary American families could attain Ms. Mendelson's lofty standards of housekeeping, and that's the psychological hurdle one must clear to enjoy this book."
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"But store-bought shortcuts and painfully executed projects won't work, says Cheryl Mendelson, author of HOME COMFORTS, a step-by-step guide to doing it the right way....Mendelson has put homemaking in its places, tackling the keeping and preparation of food and cloth, cleanliness, daily life, safe shelter, and rights and wrongs....COMFORTS is not a Heloise-style tricky-tips book. It simply tells you how to do the things you never knew how to do....HOME COMFORTS is the house what JOY OF COOKING is to food."
USA Today - Katy Kelly (12/08/1999)

"Sometimes Mendelson draws back just when you want her to get down to cases: sponges harbor bacteria, yes, but with exactly what should we wipe down our kitchen counters--one of the carefully sorted dish towels of which we should make profligate use (and then launder and iron)? But mostly she is as specific and direct as anyone could wish--or wish to escape--and manages both completeness and concision, especially when she takes obvious pleasure in the subject: planning, serving and cleaning up after meals and explaining their centrality to family life; sorting, washing and drying laundry, including ironing, which 'gratifies the senses.' Readers will have to keep in mind the author's initial assurances that you can't do it all--but here are instructions for whatever you do want to consider if you want to keep your house refreshed, sanitary and pleasant."
New York Times - Corby Kummer (12/19/1999)

"[A] vast, information-crammed new book....HOME COMFORTS belongs in as many households as its model, JOY OF COOKING--which is to say, about every American household....It is unified by one voice, that of a tireless researcher intent on covering every topic but more inspirational on the activities that truly capture her interest."
New York Times Book Review - Corby Kummer (12/19/1999)

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