Books like Salt, lemons, vinegar, and baking soda by Shea Zukowski

The Art of Fermentation is a definitive guide that translates the science, history, and practical techniques of fermentation into clear, step‑by‑step instructions for beginners and experts alike.

The Flavor Bible is a definitive culinary reference that teaches chefs and home cooks how to season ingredients for maximum flavor, drawing on the expertise of leading chefs and offering thousands of ingredient pairings.

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 from the distinct domestic styles of her native Appalachian relatives and her Italian immigrant relatives, she appreciated early on how important domestic customs are to a sense of comfort and identity in life. She writes out of love and respect for her subject, and hopes to inspire others to develop the affection and respect for home life and housework she was fortunate to have learned. Mendelson addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping with a keen sense of the history and values involved. The result is a warm, good-humored, engagingly written book with a message and a point of view, one that is overflowing with useful reflections and information. The clarity, breadth, and depth of the information collected here are unparalleled. You can read Home Comforts for thoughtful entertainment or use its ample index to help you find the answers to practical domestic questions. There is nothing quite like it. Among this book's unique features: · A skeptical discussion of the excessive use of disinfectants in the home. · How to iron a dress shirt and how to fold sheets. · How to make up a bed with hospital corners. · How to do all basic sewing stitches. · How to choose proper sizes for sheets, tablecloths, and other household linens. · How to set the table for informal and formal meals. · Expert recommendations for safe food storage. · The most exhaustive and reliable information on fabrics, textile fibers, and their laundering, drying, and other care that exists for nonprofessionals. · A thorough explanation of care labels and why and how you should often (carefully) disregard them. · Housekeeping guidelines for people with pets or with allergies. · What to do about dust mites. · How to clean and care for wood, china and crystal, jewelry, ceramic tile, metals, and more. · Guides to stain and spot removal. · Extensive recommendations for improving home safety. · A summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident liability, contracts, and domestic employees.· · 200 Elegant, Clear Drawings

This book is for women who dislike housework but like nice homes. Though it obviously will give brides an enviable head start, it was not written especially for them, but for those of us with growing families, who have to make every stroke tell or go under. Every woman knows that there is no one cleaner for everything and that what is good for one material may destroy another. And every woman also knows that there is no "magic" in cleaning anything -- just knowledge of what to use and how to use it. This book is intended to supply concise information about different articles and materials and their care. How to Clean Everything is not intended to convert casually efficient women into demon housekeepers. Consult it as you would your cookbook, when in doubt or faced with a special problem. - Introduction.

Find practical ways to clean and care for your home using everyday salt and vinegar—simple recipes, tips, and sidebars outlining the different grains of salt and types of vinegar for smarter household solutions.

Transform your home and schedule for a fresh start with expert guidance on stress management and time management tips to help you organize and declutter your life in a way that honors your past and reflects who you are now.

Learn the timeless principles of good cooking with Alice Waters’ guide to choosing ingredients, mastering basics, and creating balanced, seasonally inspired meals—simple techniques that bring out the best in everyday cooking.

A practical, reference-style guide that covers home economics, dwelling maintenance, repair, and cleaning, offering tips for keeping household spaces in order.

This volume shows how to let natural materials, such as fresh-cut lemons, vinegar, glycerine, baking soda, wheat-germ oil, beer, fragrant herbs, aspirin, butter, yoghourt, and petroleum jelly, do your dirty work for you.;This A-Z illustrated directory of 47 natural ingredients aims to show how they can be used for safe and inexpensive cleaning. The book offers ways to remove stubborn stains from laundry, upholstery and carpets and how to make polishes, soap flakes, disinfectants, car polish, brass and silver polish, window cleaner, bath scourer, and dishwater powder, even natural flea and tick collars and powder, odour removers and kind doggie shampoo.

A concise chronicle of American household cleaning practices from the late nineteenth century onward, highlighting key figures and evolving attitudes.