A beautiful, yet practical, guide to modern homemaking; Perfect for those yearning to live a more ecologically-minded, grounded lifestyle; Features 77 food recipes and 38 home and bodycare recipes.
"Erica Strauss is the founder of Northwest Edible Life, one of the most popular and well-respected urban-homesteading and gardening blogs in the country. A professionally trained chef, she shares her fun and punchy perspective on garden-to-table eating and living a slower life though her writings. Erica was featured in Best Food Writing 2013 and regularly writes for national cooking and gardening magazines."
"A lifestyle guide for eco-conscious consumers."
-Publishers Weekly
"This title enables an easy start down the path to a homemade, fun,
environmentally responsible lifestyle. Home cooks will discover
fresh recipes and adopt techniques the author shared from her
professional kitchen experience."
-Library Journal
"Offers tips for sustainability-minded modern homemaking. With
recipes and instructions for 'urban homesteading,' this book
explores reducing consumption and living healthfully."
-Alaska Beyond, Alaska Airlines magazine
"Strauss chronicles her homemade life in The Hands-On Home. The
beginner-friendly book features 77 food recipes (think green herb
lamb chops with preserved lemon oil) and 38 home and body-care
recipes."
-Seattle Magazine
"[Erica Strauss is] something like a one-woman Sunset magazine for
home cooks and gardeners in the Seattle region. In this "seasonal
guide to cooking, preserving, and natural home keeping" she relays
recipes and advice for making your kitchen and home as DIY as you
like, from making your own tortillas to making your own toothpaste.
An attractively photographed, empowering doorstop of a book,
whether readers want to learn canning or want to change their
lives."
-The Seattle Times
"The book is separated by season, offering simple tips and tricks
for the quiet, cozy activism of taking back your home, from
seasonal recipes and preserving tips to guides to making your own
Bronners-style Castile soap, DIY oven cleaner, and lip balm."
-Portland Monthly
"The Hands-On Home by Erica Strauss is a practical primer for
modern, natural homesteading with advice on cooking, preserving,
cleaning, and personal care. Organized by season, it offers a
years' worth of do-able projects for DIY living, plus enticing
recipes like Swiss Chard Gratin and Short Ribs in Red Wine."
-Yahoo! Food
"Erica Strauss acts as your seasonal guide to cooking, cleaning and
caring for yourself and your family in a more active way, and
making your house truly feel like a home."
-Red Tricycle
"[The] bath bombs are fun to make and the reward for your efforts
is a long soak in a heavenly scented bath. Kids love them and if
you can bear to give them away, they make great gifts."
-The Simple Things
"[The Hands-On Home] includes creative, money-saving tips covering
just about every aspect of homekeeping."
-Allrecipes.com
"Pinterest-perfect craft[s] that are as useful as they are
cute."
-Mother Earth News
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