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About Rose Elliot In 1967 there was only one vegetarian cookery book on general sale in the UK, so when Rose’s first book, Simply Delicious, was published, it caused quite a stir. It was described as ‘a vegetarian cookbook for normal people’ by The Jewish Chronicle, and The Jewish Gazette said that it ‘Does for vegetarian cookery what Ford’s Model T did for vehicular transportation’.
During the period in which Rose has been writing, the number of people who are vegetarian, or partially vegetarian, has surged from a few hundred thousand to around 4 million in the UK, and many have said that it was Rose’s books which helped and inspired them to change. Rose has contributed to a variety of magazines and newspapers and broadcast many times on radio and television. One of her appearances on Woman’s Hour led to the largest ever request for recipes. In October 2005 Rose began a weekly column, The Vegetarian Kitchen, in the Guardian Weekend magazine. Rose is patron of the Vegetarian Society of the UK, VIVA (Vegetarian International Voice for Animals) and The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation. She also supports Compassion In World Farming, and OXFAM for whom she has written three best-selling books to raise funds. Married, with three daughters, Rose lives in Hampshire, and in London. She is a member of MENSA and her other interests include yoga and astrology. Rose is a professionally qualified astrologer, runs an astrological consultancy – Rose Elliot Horoscopes with her husband and has written Star Pages for popular magazines including Woman’s Realm, She magazine and Here’s Health. |
Simply Delicious has been followed by over 50 books
(all vegetarian or vegan), with around 3 million sales, making Rose
one of the best-selling cookery writers in the English-speaking world.
Amongst these books was her all-time best-seller The Bean
Book, and Not Just A Load Of Old Lentils of
which Vogue said ‘Rarely have I found so many recipes I
longed to cook, and all of them easy and inexpensive’. 
