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A Well-Kept Home Household Traditions And Simple Secrets From A French Grandmother

(HC )

by:
Fronty, Laura

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Product Details:

HC :

160 Pages

Publisher:

Rizzoli

Pub. Date:

Mar 30, 2001

Photos:

120 Color Photographs

Our Part #:

01590

ISBN-10:

0789305283

ISBN-13:

9780789305282

Description:

Who would not want a home as carefully ordered and lovingly well-cared for as those from days gone by? In this era of technological innovation and all-consuming schedules here is a different perspective on caring for the home. A Well-Kept Home recreates the natural rhythms used by earlier generations to manage their homes, offering a wide range of practical domestic advice with over 120 traditional French recipes and traditions that are still relevant and useful today.

In this exquisitely illustrated book, Laura Fronty draws on her own grandmother's life in Provence in both the home and the garden, providing helpful French secrets and natural solutions for decorating and maintaining the house and for achieving a beautiful garden; from preserving fruits to arranging fresh flowers to waxing floors to cleaning delicate fabrics with ivy water to homemade lemon and clove shampoo, these recipes are simple and natural yet refined and sophisticated. The emphasis of these traditional recipes is on curing domestic concerns and in finding satisfaction in finishing even the most mundane of household tasks to carry us to the well-being of a different era.

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