At least one house builder has invested significantly in research towards what will influence future housing designs. Project:LIFE was a major project undertaken by house builder, David Wilson Homes, in conjunction with the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester. One family was chosen from a field of 70 to spend six months living […]
Maryville College, a private college located in Tennessee, is offering “Food, Dollars and Sense” as part of their January Term, a three-week academic session between the fall and spring semesters. Although classes taken during “J-Term” are credited toward a student’s general education requirements, these are not like usual college classes, and may instead take a […]
Busy professionals don’t have to “miss out on eating nutritious meals” just because they don’t have the time to cook them at home.
Consider the personal chef. Hiring a professional in-home caterer is a growing trend.
According to the United States Personal Chef Association, the industry boasts more than 5,000 personal chefs in operation.
Services can be […]
These are the trends to follow this year for both the home and garden, according to Beverly Fortune of the Belleville News Democrat:
- Organization, not clutter
“People want more elaborate closets with specific places to store shoes, stack sweaters, hang jackets and suits,” said Tom Kelly, president of the Home Builders Association of Lexington, Ky.
I certainly […]
Gainesville Times writer Tim Thompson shares a few kitchen tricks:
When spraying your muffin pans with nonstick cooking spray, don’t do it over your counter. You’ll have to clean the oily residue afterward. Instead, open your dishwasher door and spray the pans over the door. The residue spray will be cleaned off the door the next […]
I just spent a considerable amount of time tinkering with a new computer. All I wanted to do was create a setup disk, and the smart little gizmo won’t let me.
I got stuck when it asked me to choose which drive I wanted to use to create the disk. It would have been easy […]
A slow cooker is one of the things that’s on my kitchen counter right now. It’s red and has been used just once.
I have to confess I have 2 others in the basement, gifts from long ago that unfortunately I have not found a good use for. This new red one is again a […]
Do you know who invented that common kitchen appliance, the dishwasher?
Although a hand-powered device was patented by Joel Houghton in 1850, it was Josephine Cochran who made the first real automatic dishwasher in 1886.
Mrs Cochran, 44, a socialite, was frustrated with careless servants chipping her china, so she conceived a dishwasher to do the job […]
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Written by S.P. Bragg [email] for b5media.
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