Rose Elliot

At the age of three, she made the connection between fish to eat and the living creatures themselves and decided to become a vegetarian.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070913060254/http://www.tonywardle.co.uk/articles/vl29_30.php Rose Elliot Interview] Tony Wardle journalist, Summer 2005.

Her grandmother, Grace Cooke, was the founder of the spiritualist group White Eagle Lodge. As a member of the family, and vegetarian from the age of three. She learned to cook from Margaret Blatch's book Household Non-Flesh Cookery.{{Cite news |last=Stelfox |first=Hilarie |date=1994-09-13 |title=Her finger on the Pulse |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/821604755/?terms=%22Her%20finger%20on%20the%20Pulse%22&match=1 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-03-19 |work=Huddersfield Daily Examiner |pages=11 |via=Newspapers.com}} Rose began cooking vegetarian food at the White Eagle Lodge Retreat Centre "New Lands". Rose enthusiastically rose to the challenge and created new recipes. Her food was so popular that her recipes were much in demand. This led to her producing a small booklet for the White Eagle Lodge charity. A few publicity copies went out, including to The Times. Rave reviews led to orders from bookshops, launching her career as a cookery writer.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080516093011/https://www.quiet-mind.org/roseelliot.htm The Quiet Mind Centre]}}, A charity based in Exmouth, East Devon, Accessed March 2011. Her books are characterized by a chatty style and anecdotes about her experiments in cookery with her family.

Inspired by her late mother, Joan Hodgson, Rose became interested in astrology at 13, dedicating her book Life Cycles to her. For 5 years she also wrote "a weekly astrological column{{Clarify|date=January 2011|Reason: quotes are opened but not closed: where does the quote end, and where is it from?}} for British magazines including Woman’s Realm, Here’s Health and She. With her husband, Robert, she developed a computer based service "Rose Elliot Horoscopes".Recollection of mother, p. xiii, and data from biography on dust jacket of her Life Cycles: The Influence of Planetary Cycles on Our Lives, Macmillan, 1993.{{Full citation needed|date=January 2011|Reason:p xiii of what?}} Rose Elliot was awarded the diploma of the Faculty of Astrological Studies (DFAstrolS) and joined the Astrological Association when she was 19, and in 2005 she became a Fellow of The Association of Professional Astrologers International (APAI). Her Life Cycles was completely revised and published by Polair Publishing in November 2008.[http://www.roseelliot.com/pwpcontrol.php?pwpID=1352 See Rose Elliot website]

Rose is patron of the Vegetarian Society, VIVA and The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation.[https://ivu.org/congress/2002/texts/rose.html "Rose Elliot MBE"]. ivu.org. Retrieved 27 March 2023.

She lives in Hampshire and in London, and is a member of MENSA.

In 1999, she was awarded the MBE for services to vegetarian cookery.

• Simply Delicious The White Eagle Publishing Trust 1967
• Not Just a Load of Old Lentils The White Eagle Publishing Trust 1972,
• Thrifty Fifty, 50 Low Cost Recipes, Hampshire: White Eagle Publishing Trust, 1973
• The Oxfam Vegetable Cookbook, Oxfam 1975
• The Bean Book, Fontana 1979
• The Festive Vegetarian: Recipes and Menus for Every Occasion, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1983
• Rose Elliot's Book of Fruits, Fontana Paperbacks, 1983
• Book of Savoury Flans and Pies, Fontana. 1984.
• Beanfeast; a beginner's guide to wholefood cooking, Fontana 1985
• The New Vegetarian Cookbook, London: Octopus Books, 1986
• Vegetarian Mother and Baby Book, Pantheon Books, 1986
• Cooking with Beans and Pulses : With foreword and star recipes by Rose Elliot, Holland & Barrett / Thorsons Publishers. 1986.
• Vegetarian Dishes of the World, HarperCollins Publishers, 1988
• The Zodiac Cookbook, Pyramid, 1989
• Vegetarian Four Seasons, New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1994
• Life Cycles, The Influence of Planetary Cycles on Our Lives, Macmillan, 1993, and Pan, 1995.
• Rose Elliot's Oxfam Vegetarian Cooking For Children, Vermilion, 1995
• Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Fast Food : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996.
• Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking, Thorsons, Wellingborough 1996
• Quick and Easy Vegetarian Meals for Students, Martin Books, 1997
• Vegetarian Meals for Students, HarperCollins, 1997
• Mother, Baby & Toddler Book, London: Harper Collins, 1997
• Vegetarian Express, Phoenix, 2001
• New Vegetarian Cooking: 120 Fast, Fresh, and Fabulous Recipes, Simon & Schuster, 2004
• Book Of Pasta {{ISBN|0-00-636703-8}}
• The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook
• Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Cookery
• Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Christmas
• Rose Elliot's New Complete Vegetarian Collins, 2010
• Best Of Rose Elliot, Mitchell Beazley, 2014

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• [http://www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk/index.php?art_id=812 Rose Elliot, The Vegetarian Queen] The goodwebGuide.co.uk. n interview with Rose Elliott. Accessed April 2008.
• [http://www.roseelliot.com/aboutrose.htm?PHPSESSID=d3c4aee7c42f442bc5e89a8759be1676 About Rose Elliot] At Rose Elliot's website. Accessed April 2008.

• [http://www.roseelliot.com/ Personal website]

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