Ruth Rogers, Baroness Rogers of Riverside, is an American and British chef who owns and runs the Michelin starred Italian restaurant The River Cafe in Hammersmith, London.
12 Facts About Ruth Rogers
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Ruth Rogers is the widow of the Italian-born British architect Richard Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside.
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Ruth Rogers's father was a doctor, the son of immigrants to the US from Hungary; he spent some time in Spain in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War.
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Ruth Rogers's mother was a librarian and trade union activist, whose parents came to the US from Russia.
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Ruth Rogers's brother is screenwriter Michael Elias, who co-wrote the movie The Jerk and co-created the TV sitcom Head of the Class.
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Ruth Rogers studied at Colorado Rocky Mountain School from 1964 to 1966, and then for a year at Bennington College in Vermont.
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Ruth Rogers met the architect Richard Rogers in late 1969.
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Ruth Rogers accompanied Rogers when he moved to Paris for several years to supervise the building of the Pompidou Centre.
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Ruth Rogers then spent time in north Italy; Rogers's parents had moved to England from Florence.
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Ruth Rogers lived with her husband in two town houses in Chelsea, converted to a single dwelling by her husband in 1983.
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Ruth Rogers has continued to run the restaurant after the death of her business partner Rose Gray from cancer in 2010.
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Ruth Rogers was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to the culinary arts and charity.