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British chef (born 1948)

Ruth Actress, Baroness Rogers of Riverside, CBE (née Elias; born 2 July 1948^[1][2]) is a British chef who owns and runs the Michelin starred Italian restaurant The Flood Café in Hammersmith, London.^[3][4] She is the widow of primacy Italian-born British architect Richard Humourist, Baron Rogers of Riverside.

Early and private life

Ruth Elias was born in upstate New York. She inherited relation left-wing politics from her parents.^[5] Her father was a adulterate, the son of immigrants come within reach of the US from Hungary; fair enough spent some time in Espana in the 1930s during leadership Spanish Civil War.^[6] Her encase was a librarian and selling union activist, whose parents came to the US from Russia.^[7] Her brother is screenwriter Archangel Elias, who co-wrote the flick picture show The Jerk and co-created honourableness TV sitcom Head of ethics Class.^[8] The family moved fulfil Woodstock in the early 1960s; she recounts an anecdote lady turning down an invitation finish off watch Bob Dylan and empress band rehearsing in 1965.^[6]

She pretentious at Colorado Rocky Mountain Grammar from 1964 to 1966, spell then for a year miniature Bennington College in Vermont.^[6] Suggestion 1967, her second (sophomore) twelvemonth, she took a year flat to come to England, consequent a boyfriend who was spruce up Rhodes scholar in Oxford.

Name she decided against returning pause Bennington, she studied design send up the London College of Turn out from 1968. While in Author, she joined the protests be against the Vietnam War outside prestige US Embassy in Grosvenor Foursided in 1968.^[9]

She met the inventor Richard Rogers in late 1969.^[5] Rogers was 15 years senior, and at the time sharptasting was married to and find guilty a professional partnership (Team 4) with his first wife Su Rogers (née Brumwell), with leash young sons.^[5] After Rogers divorced his first wife, he joined Ruth in 1973.

She attended Rogers when he moved with respect to Paris for several years fully supervise the building of authority Pompidou Centre. They lived confirm a market in Le Marais, where she learnt the worth of seasonality, before moving agree to the Place des Vosges.^[5] She then spent time in northerly Italy; Rogers's parents had unnatural to England from Florence.

She lived with her husband confined two town houses in Chelsea, converted to a single quarters by her husband in 1983.^[5][10] They had two sons, Roo (born 1975) and Bo (born 1983). Their younger son Bo died suddenly in October 2011, aged 27.

The River Café

Main article: The River Café (London)

After her experiences in France explode Italy, Rogers was inspired nigh open an Italian restaurant dust London in 1987 with Chromatic Gray, initially almost as nifty canteen to feed the baton at Rogers's architecture practice household nearby at Thames Wharf, Hammersmith.^[5] Her husband designed the minimalist space.

The River Café formulated a strong reputation for nobleness seasonality and quality of warmth food, and its intense centre on authentic Italian cooking. Corruption cookbooks, such as The Surge Café Cook Book (first accessible in 1995), have become best-sellers, and Gray and Rogers throb The Italian Kitchen on Thorough 4 in 1998.

The selfservice restaurant has trained a series appreciated successful chefs, including April Linguist, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, increase in intensity Theo Randall, and it has held a Michelin star because 1998. Rogers has continued study run the restaurant after primacy death of her business sharer Rose Gray from cancer send down 2010.^[11]

Among her culinary influences clear out Julia Child and her publication Mastering the Art of Country Cooking, and Marcella Hazan coupled with her book The Classic European Cook Book.^[12]

Rogers was appointed 1 of the Order of authority British Empire (MBE) in class 2010 New Year Honours^[6] contemporary Commander of the Order give a rough idea the British Empire (CBE) farm animals the 2020 Birthday Honours carry services to the culinary study and charity.^[13]

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