Introducing: Ruthie's Table 4

For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home.

 

On Ruthie's Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers.

 

Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. 

 

Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation.

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One of my favorite restaurants in London, well, actually anywhere
in the world is the River Cafe. River Cafe Table
four is a brand new podcast with me, Ruthie Rogers,
the founder and chef of the River Cafe in London.
River Cafe Table four. It takes us on a food
journey around the world with friends like Paul McCartney, John

(00:23):
Lennon and I hitch hiked to Paris and we thought, oh,
we've got to have a wine experience. We're in France
and we took a sip and thought, that is terrible.
It's like vinegar. This podcast features intimate conversations with my
guests all about their food memories, like Victoria Beckham. We
ate before the show, we ate during the show, and

(00:45):
we ate after the show. I discussed food and travel
with Kerry Joji Fukanaka when I was traveling in Cambodia
in all late nineties. Actually with the Japanese guy that
met one of the hostels. We have motorcycling across country.
He wanted detour to this town that was known for
its stir fried spiders. And each guest selects their favorite
recipe from a River Cafe cookbook. I'm Jake Jillenhall, and

(01:08):
there is truly nothing like Ruthie slow cooked tomato sauce,
featuring guests such as Glenn Close. We had a rooster
down there called Pretzel. He was inedible. You couldn't even
get a life where my mother was Pretzel's revenge Jeff Goldbloom. Okay,
here ready, here's my rent. You don't like it, you

(01:29):
can say take two, and I'll do as many times
as you want to. Wait, I'm taking one yet, just
a second, Edward, somehow I missed the cooking Jane, but
I can really eating and many many more. So join
us at River Cafe Table four to hear this brand

(01:49):
new podcast all about their memories, their travels, and the
food they turned to for comfort. What would that be
your comfort food? Well, and years ago I was such
agi meshes. Now it's caprio. Okay. Listen to River Cafe
Table four on the I Heart Radio app, on Apple Podcasts,

(02:09):
or wherever you get your podcasts