I am thrilled to announce that my new cook book,
MEDITERRANEAN COOKING for DIABETICS is published TODAY in the USA!
It comes with 250 beautiful photos of food and life here in SW France, taken by my in-house photographer–Meredith Wheeler!
Bon Appetit tout le monde!
This is a reworking of my first cookbook, Delicious Dishes for Diabetics–so if you have that, the recipes will be familiar but the format is completely different.
ALSO The Washington Post just published a recipe from the new book for hazelnut pasta, one of our favorites!
We are doing an American book tour (with a bit of POLDARK mixed in) during the first three weeks of September. Here’s the itinerary so far! Come say hello!
(Details of the NYC event still being worked out!)
Robin Ellis 
Fantastic!! Congratulations Robin! I wish I lived somewhere near where your book tour is making a stop….just happy that you have an American tour.
I want you to know that many of us in the U.S. are so happy for your continued success as a chef, an author and actor!
You are my Ross Poldark forever!
Too kind and much appreciated, Cynthia.
Excellent! I’ve been waiting for this to become available.
Best of luck with the book, Robin – it does look absolutely smashing!
Thanks, Linda.
Good luck Robin, and hope your US tour goes very well. Hope to catch up with you and Meredith in the Autumn in Lautrec.
Richard.
Thanks Richard.
I was hoping you would come to Chicago. 😦 You and Angharad Rees will always be my Ross and Demelza. Best of luck with the American tour.
We’ll be there next May, Andrea.
I’m afraid I will be waiting impatiently but will have more time to try some of your recipes.
Congratulations, Captain. It’s going to be a hit! ❤️
Thanks, Trisha.
Wow, fabulous, looks great! Congratulations — to the the both of you. Wishing you much success with it.
All the best
Steven
Wow! So excited about your new book, new recipes, and the Book Tour!
I will be delighted to see you and Meredith again in Arlington, VA, where I live!
Better at the library than at that weird hotel in Arlington where we saw you last!
Looking forward to it!
Genie
Better indeed, Genie!
Dear Robin:
Congratulations! I have your two previous books –which I originally bought as a fan, both of Mediterranean cooking and you.
Now that I am pre-diabetic, I have all the more reason to keep them near while I am in the Minervois, where I spend a few months every year.
Enjoy your book tour: I look forward to reading your impressions along the way.
Best,
Marta Varela
Enjoy your time in the beautiful Minervois, marta and I’m happy to hear the other books are proving useful.
Hi Robin. Great to meet you and Meredith at the recent book signing in Doncaster. Your book is a lovely addition to our kitchen! Hoping your trip to the U S goes well,
Heidi x
Likewise, Heida and happy you are enjoying the book.
Congratulations – you must be so pleased. Well done both of you! Have a lovely time in New York.
Looking forward to it , Margaret.
Congratulations Robin. I hope all goes well with the tour.
Wishing you every success!
Regards,
Fran . Shaw
Thanks, Fran.
Congratulations and thank you, thank you! I have copies of both your books (and the Poldark book) and sent more copies of the cookbooks to a cousin with diabetes. I share them with one and all. I am sorry I cannot see you and Mrs. Ellis in person at a book signing – I live squashed up near the Canadian border. Best of luck with your tour.
Un de ces jours, Alix.
Dear Robin:
I am so excited to get a copy of your new cookbook. I pre-ordered it on Amazon and it is on its way to me. I sure wish I could make it to one of your book signings in September but my schedule is tight with other events already scheduled. We already have met in Chicago in 2012 at Barnes and Nobles and my husband and I really enjoyed the conversations with you and Meredith. Best of luck with your book tour and visit to the United States.
Mary Lou Werner
Thank you Mary Lou.
Robin,
I really hope that you will be doing something in the Chicago area, too. My wife, who has read all twelve of Winston Graham’s books, as well as Making Poldark, of course (which we bought when we visited Cornwall, including Trenwith, in 1980), would love to meet you. “Poldark” helped her get through the stress of studying for the bar exam in 1977. There is a reason our son is named Ross.
Pat Allen
Well, Pat–we will be coming to Chicago in may and will do some kind of an event. So happy Poldark helped with the law exams! Is Ross still happy about his name?
Sorry for the delay in responding; we were away. He likes the name but I am not sure he appreciates being named after a TV show. He tries to claim he was named after Ross Barnes, a Chicago Cubs player from the 1870s, but his mother and I know better.
Hi Robin,
I received your new book today and I must say it has lots of delicious recipes in it and I can’t wait to start making some. Can’t wait to make the Zucchini eggs for breakfast, I was getting very hungry looking at all of the photos. I have a Pork loin in the freezer and I will make the Pork Loin in Balsamic vinegar for sure when the weather here gets a little cooler. The book is beautifully done and with the photos by your wife it makes it more enjoyable to look and read so we can make sure our cooking will maybe look like yours.
Marge
Thanks, Marge–gad you are finding it useful.
I cook from your other books regularly and am sure to do so with the new one. Wish you would stop by Santa Fe one day, so I could meet you and Meredith. But I especially enjoy your posts with pictures of your home and cats. Always pass them on to friends – recipes too. Just made your quinoa salad yesterday!
A summer staple.
Nancy
We are aiming to call in to Santa fe next year, Nancy.
Wonderful! Can hardly wait. You’ll find it a very old city but very sophisticated city. If you come during the summer, be sure let me know if you’d like opera tickets. We have a world-class opera company. Check out the website @ https://www.santafeopera.org/ if you’re interested. It may show next year’s schedule.
For lunch today I’ll have another serving of Robin Ellis’ quinoa salad – a summer staple.
Nancy
Santa Fe, NM
Yay–congrats once again, Robin!! Should we order online or buy it from the chef himself (in September)? Of course, if we buy it now, we could start taste-testing dishes with it right away…. 😉
A vous de choisir, Diane!
I’m anxiously awaiting your book to arrive next week. It will probably be well thumbed through with turned down pages like my other two cookbooks that you have written. I hope to meet you in person in Palo Alto.
Hope to too, Susan.
Looking forward to the Big Apple event. We do hope to make it and add your book to the shelves!
Rich and Mary
The public event in NYC is not fixed yet. We are working on it but it is proving difficult to find a location. Look forward to meeting you and we will post where as soon a see know.
Congratulations to both of you, have a wonderful three weeks in the USA, no doubt this will be the first of many successful tours wearing both hats!
So gutted Fly into New York on the evening of 5th. So sorry to miss your dates there. Is there any chance you could leave a couple of signed copies at one of the venues for me to pay for and collect later. One will be for me so a message to Lyn (a fan from the seventies) the other a gift for my Aunt, Pauline, in Cornwall who has recently be diagnosed with diabetes
Would be so so grateful.
Thank you
Lyn
Sorry to miss you, Lyn.
If you leave your address we could send you a couple of signed book plates to put into your books bought from Amazon–would this work for you?
The books are cheaper on Amazon!
Would you be able to personalise those?
Also are there any other signing dates to be scheduled as I will be travelling down from New York to South Carolina over the next two weeks.
Kind regards
Lyn Harrison
Of course–as you suggest.
Many thanks. Signed book plates would be great. If possible could one read “Happy Birthday Pauline” and the other simply “To Lyn”
My address is 17 Marina Court, Bedford, England. MK42 9EE.
Many thanks again and good luck with the US book your.
Regards
Lyn Harrison