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The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook is a book on housekeeping during the British Raj. Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner, each the wife of a British civil servant in India, published the first edition of the book in 1888 after having lived in India for some years. They revised and reprinted the book several times.
Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running and maintaining an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital or factory, such as cleaning, tidying/organizing, cooking, shopping, and bill payment.
Good Housekeeping is one of several magazines related to homemaking. Title page of Our Home Cyclopedia: Cookery and Housekeeping, published in Detroit, Michigan, in 1889. Homemaking is mainly an American and Canadian term for the management of a home, otherwise known as housework, housekeeping, housewifery or household management. It is the act ...
The French word for housekeeping, ménagerie, derived from ménager ("to keep house"; compare ménage for "household"), also encompasses taking care of domestic animals. Ménagerie is the French translation of Xenophon's famous book Oeconomicus [6] (Ancient Greek: Οἰκονομικός) on household matters and husbandry.
Cleaning is the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment. Cleaning is often performed for aesthetic, hygienic, functional, safety, or environmental protection purposes.
Many Hindi speakers with Internet use English Wikipedia instead. Given the great geographic spread of the Hindi language, the contributors to the Hindi project live in various areas around the country. There are also prolific users whose native language is not Hindi, as Hindi is a government language in India alongside English.
Hygiene is a practice [3] related to lifestyle, cleanliness, health, and medicine.In medicine and everyday life, hygiene practices are preventive measures that reduce the incidence and spread of germs leading to disease.
Housekeeping is a 1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson.The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.. In 2003, Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, [1] describing the book as "Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women."