Find order and beauty in the kitchen with this delightfully elegant primer on washing the Dishes that elevates and illuminates a seemingly routine chore.
It is the perfect gift for those who love to clean and equally as apt for those we wish would clean a bit more..
How to Wash the Dishes brings elegance, art, and a bit of mindfulness to the sink.
In the evening in particular, there is a silence when it is all done.
There are some who feel the time and movement is a kind of digestive.
There are some who do the Dishes for the clarity and privacy of it, and there are some who relish the quiet isolation of putting things in order where they belong.
It is a bustling musical of water and soap, of flow and surface, and done well, the fragile shall sit as proudly as the cast-iron.
Despite its din and clatter, and despite its reputation, washing the Dishes is the coda to the meal.
It is never convenient.
At times it is quite routine, sometimes raucous, other times complex.
Washing the Dishes is as much a part of making a meal as prepping the vegetables, making the sauces, or seasoning the meats.
We pay so much attention to recipes but little attention to maintenance and cleanup.
In this reverent guide to the household chore, Peter Miller shows us how washing Dishes can become a joy, a delight, a meditative exercise, and an act of grace and rhythm.
Washing the Dishes is an ordinary, everyday task--but with examination and care, it can become much more.
Find order and beauty in the kitchen with this delightfully elegant primer on washing the Dishes that elevates and illuminates a seemingly routine chore