Famous English journalist and writer, Isabella Mary Beeton (nee Mayson) (March 14, 1836 – February 6, 1865), was more colloquially known as Mrs. Beeton. In 1860, her husband, Samuel Beeton, founded Beeton’s Christmas Annual. This was the very publication in which Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic character, Sherlock Holmes, first appeared in the “A Study in Scarlet.” While Beeton’s book continues to be an authority on Victorian cooking and practices, many of the recipes were actually copied from other successful cookbooks of the time, such as that of predecessor Eliza Acton (April 17, 1799 – February 13, 1859). Mrs. Beeton did, however, add her own twist, including some interesting takes on certain foods. In her opinion: “mangoes tasted like turpentine”; “garlic was offensive”; and “lobster was indigestible.”