A German Mother’s Instructions to Her Son’s Wife — London, 1838 My dear daughter, Now I shall teach you how to make pork ribs properly, because pork is forgiving, but only up to a point. It wants slow heat, good seasoning, and patience. If you rush it, the meat will cling stubbornly to the bone and everyone at table will pretend not to notice while sawing at it with a knife. For a supper of six persons, you will require four to five pounds of meaty pork ribs, preferably cut into manageable...

The Seven Clans of Victorian Albion Within our chronicle, players encounter the seven Camarilla clans permitted in Victorian Albion: Brujah, Gangrel, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Toreador, Tremere and Ventrue. Each experiences London differently. The Ventrue find opportunity among banking houses, aristocratic families, government offices and the old institutions of British power. The Toreador thrive around theaters, artists, fashionable drawing rooms and the rapidly changing culture of London...

A Mother’s Instructions to Her Son’s Wife — London, 1838 My dear daughter, Now we come to beef, which is a proper thing to put before a hungry family and considerably easier to manage than a goose, provided you do not commit the terrible mistake of cooking it until it resembles the sole of my husband's old boots. Buy good steaks from a butcher you trust. For our household, naturally, the beef must be slaughtered and prepared according to the customs of the family. Do not allow a butcher to...