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A Well-Kept Home - Household Traditions and Simple Secrets from a French Grandmother (Hardcover)
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A Well-Kept Home - Household Traditions and Simple Secrets from a French Grandmother (Hardcover)
Series: Rizzoli Classics
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This classic volume-now available in a new, smaller format and at a
reduced price-provides time-tested advice and old-fashioned wisdom
for maintaining a lovely and inviting home. The frantic quality of
modern life and our increasing reliance on technology and on
manufactured goods has submerged our awareness of the inherited and
seasonal patterns of effective domestic household management. A
Well-Kept Home revives the more natural methods used by our
forebears to run their homes, reflecting on the traditional way
that earlier generations cooked, cleaned, decorated, groomed, and
gardened. In this exquisitely illustrated book, Laura Fronty draws
on her own grandmother's life experiences in the home and the
garden, providing helpful tips and natural solutions for effective
food preparation, cleaning methods for clothes and the interior,
restora- tive beauty treatments, and basic approaches to gardening.
She emphasizes the satisfaction gained from even the most mundane
of tasks and offers indis- pensable tips for activities that cover
a variety of domestic themes, such as making bitter orange
marmalade or instant shortcrust pastry, lighting a wood fire,
treating wooden floors with wax, mixing ivy water for cleaning
delicate fabrics, and preparing lily oil as a face moisturizer. A
Well-Kept Home transforms our approach to the daily chores
surrounding the upkeep of a home. The practical advice and natural
recipes make it possible to take real pleasure in essential
household duties, while at the same time evoking the atmosphere and
spirit of a time gone by.
General
Imprint: |
Universe Publishing Company
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Rizzoli Classics |
Release date: |
February 2015 |
First published: |
February 2015 |
Authors: |
Laura Fronty
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Photographers: |
Yves Duronsoy
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Dimensions: |
258 x 203 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7893-2908-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
General
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LSN: |
0-7893-2908-5 |
Barcode: |
9780789329080 |
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