Useful Book, The: 194 Life Skills They Used To Teach In Home Ec and Shop - Softcover

Bowers, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761171738 ISBN 13: 9780761171737

Publisher: Workman Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Home Ec and Shop features 138 practical projects and how-tos, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, relevant charts, sidebars, lists, and handy toolboxes. There's a kitchen crash course, including the must-haves for a well-stocked pantry; how to boil an egg (and peel it frustration-free); how to grill, steam, saute, and roast vegetables; and foolproof recipes: Perfect Meatloaf, No-Knead Bread, the Best Chicken Soup. There's Sewing 101, plus how to fold a fitted sheet, tie a tie, mop a floor, make a bed, and set the table for a formal dinner. Next up: a 21st-century shop class. The tools that everyone should have, and dozens of cool projects that teach fundamental techniques. Practice measuring, cutting, and nailing while building a birdhouse. Make a bookshelf or a riveted metal picture frame. Plus: do-it-yourself plumbing, how to rewire a lamp, car repair basics, and home maintenance from priming and painting to refinishing wood floors.

About this title

Review:

"Married couple Sharon Bowers (Candy Construction) and David Bowers (Dad's Own Housekeeping Book) serve as mom-and-pop guides through the never-ending task of housekeeping in this handy book of how-tos....Readers learning to live on their own will want to have this book on hand." -Publishers Weekly

"[will] leave you feeling brilliantly self-sufficient" -BookPage

"anyone who studiously read the book cover to cover would become the paragon jack of all trades." -Arkansas Democrat Gazette

About the Author:

David Bowers is a woodworker, painter, author of Bake Like a Man: A Real Man's Cookbook, and stay-at-home dad. Sharon Bowers contributes to iVillage and Parents magazine, and is the author of Ghoulish Goodies, Candy Construction, and The Idiot's Guide to Cooking Chicken.

About this edition

• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0761171738
• ISBN 13: 9780761171737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448