Garden Cottage Diaries - My Year in the Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Fiona J Houston is a journalist, museum researcher, grandmother and campaigner for a greener world. A former schoolteacher, avid historian,and an experienced gardener and cook, her year in the past brought together these skills and passions in a remarkable living-history project. Klappentext Presents the story of the author's year re-creating the lifestyle of her 1790s ancestor in a basic one-roomed cottage, eating home-grown produce and surviving on her own resources - making household items herself and dressing in period clothing. This illustrated title includes gardening info, menus, recipes and nature notes. Zusammenfassung Presents the story of the author's year re-creating the lifestyle of her 1790s ancestor in a basic one-roomed cottage! eating home-grown produce and surviving on her own resources - making household items herself and dressing in period clothing. This illustrated title includes gardening info! menus! recipes and nature notes.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona J. Houston, Houston Fiona J., Fiona Hudson
• Publisher: Saraband
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.2010
• EAN: 9781887354776
• ISBN: 978-1-887354-77-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Food & drink; Gardening, COOKING / General, SELF-HELP / Green Lifestyle, GARDENING / General, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, HOUSE & HOME / General, Cookery / food & drink etc, Home & house maintenance, Green lifestyle & self-sufficiency, Cookery / food and drink / food writing / cookbooks, Published diaries, letters and journals, Self-sufficiency and sustainable lifestyle(s), Home and house maintenance / renovation / building