New York-born Ruth Rogers (75) launched the River Cafe in Hammersmith, West London with her late cochef partner Rose Gray in 1987. It went on to become one of the most renowned restaurants in Britain and has retained its Michelin star status for the last 26 years. Ruth, the widow of the late architect Richard Rogers, designer of the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyds Building in London among other projects, has also written a wide array of cookbooks and has been awarded both an MBE and CBE for services to the culinary arts and charity. She currently hosts a celebrity interview food podcast called Ruthie’s Table 4
ONE OF MY EARLIEST FOOD MEMORIES IS MY FATHER TAKING ME INTO NEW and then we’d buy the soundtrack album from a record shop called Sam Goody. To this day, I think I know the words to pretty much every single song from every single Broadway musical from that era.
