Ruthie's Table 4

Mala Goanker, businesswoman, writer and founder of SurgoCap, sits down with Ruthie to discuss her work in public healthcare, growing a farm in Sussex and the science of food in forming memories. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The MoMA is arguably the best museum in the world. Art-historian and director, Glenn Lowry, joins Ruthie to talk about the importance of great food in museums, the recent Ed Ruscha exhibition, and the influence of French cooking on his life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Bear is the number 1 hit show of 2023. Writer, producer and show-runner , Joanna Calo, joins Ruthie to discuss creating menus for television, growing up with a communal kitchen and the importance of female representation in kitchens on screen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trudie Styler,   film   producer, actress, activist and farmer, joins Ruthie to talk about their shared connection of the food, wine and history of Tuscany. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ralph Fiennes, actor, writer, director and one of five children talks to Ruthie about the roles he has played in his long career and the important role food has played in his life. Listen to two good friends talk together. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After meeting Scott Galloway for lunch a few months ago, Ruthie invited the podcast host, best-selling author and professor of marketing to join her on Table 4. Claiming he had little interest in food, the hour was spent looking at his life through his mother’s cooking, meals with his children, and an experience in The  River Cafe involving the holding of hands. For more information, recipes, and...

Ruthie and J.J Martin, founder of Milanese lifestyle brand La Double J, meet for the first time and immediately discover how much they have in common - most of all a passion and admiration for everything Italian.   If you'd like to send Ruthie a message for the 100th Episode Lister Q&A, send a voice note to: +447983396982 For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to: Web:  https://riv...

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a best-selling, prize-winning author, historian and broadcaster. In this episode, Ruthie talks to him about the food of Georgia, the Montefiore family tree and his most recent book, The World: A Family History of Humanity. If you'd like to send Ruthie a message for the 100th Episode Lister Q&A, send a voice note to: +447983396982 For more information, recipes, and ing...

Ruthie sat down with Linda Evangelista in New York to discuss growing up in Canada, a shared love of fresh produce, cooking with family and how to prepare the perfect gnocchi. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to: Web:  https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram:  www.instagram.com/ruthiestable4 Facebook:  https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For any podcast enquires please cont...

To celebrate the launch of their new book, Ruthie sat down with co-authors Massimo Bottura & Lara Gilmore at Refettorio Felix in London for a special live recording of Ruthie’s Table 4. They discussed their new book Slow Food, Fast Cars, the importance of regionality and seasonality, family traditions, trusting your palate, community kitchens and, amongst other things, a very famous lemon tart...

Jon Gray and I met last May on the Chanel Connects podcast. We spoke about family, our cookbooks, Ghetto Gastro, collaborating with creative partners, food activism, and more. Today, I’m happy to say, the tables are turned and he is my guest on Ruthie's Table 4. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to: Web:  https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram:  www.instagram.com/ruthiestable4 Faceboo...

In this episode, Ruthie talks with Es Devlin about her visionary stage designs for Beyoncé, The Weeknd, Yves Saint Laurent, The Crucible, U2 at the Sphere, and much more. She also shares her love of food and explains why a restaurant—and the world—is a stage. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to: Web:  https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram:  www.instagram.com/ruthiestable4 Facebook: ...

Welcome back to season three of Ruthie's Table 4! We've got a great group of people ahead but we are going to start the season with a good friend, a great director and a great lover of food, Wes Anderson. I have a few philosophies in life, one of which is to always say yes to Wes Anderson. Ruthie, should we get a sheet from upstairs cupboard and screen Fantastic Mr. Fox outside in the garden tonig...

All of us at Ruthie's Table 4 are delighted to announce the return of Season Three of the podcast launching next Tuesday 17th October! Until then please enjoy the re-broadcast of this interview with Ed Ruscha. Please rate & review the podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to: Web:  https://rive...

For the final episode of season two, we’ll hear from Tina Fey, Mel Brooks, Adwoa Aboah, Rick Rubin, Wolfgang Puck & Yotam Ottolenghi. Over the course of this season, we’ve spoken to 34 guests for Ruthie's Table 4—talking about food, family, and memories. We’ve had conversations in Los Angeles, New York, Cannes and, of course, at home here at The River Cafe in London. To mark the end of Season...

Over the course of this season, we’ve spoken to 34 guests for Ruthie's Table 4—talking about food, family, and memories. We’ve had conversations in Los Angeles, New York, Cannes and, of course, at home here at The River Cafe in London. To mark the end of Season Two, we’ve complied some of these conversations together. For Part One, we’ll hear from Gwyneth Paltrow, Jamie Oliver, Ian Wright, Dame Ju...

This episode was originally broadcast as part of the limited art artist series from 2022. Sam Taylor-Johnson is an artist, photographer, and film-director - and she has been a friend of Ruthie’s since the day they met at the Tate gallery in 1998. Listen to their memories of children, food, music and art from this episode of Ruthie's Table 4's. Please rate & review the podcast on Apple podcasts...

For years, I've wanted to sit at his table and talk to Nick Allott. I imagine we would talk about the musicals he's produced- Les Miserables, Cats, Carousel, Hamilton - what he's doing now, his political battle to save theatres during the pandemic, and the great love for his best friend, the late, writer and restaurant critic Adrian Gill. Today, Nick is not a guest in The River Cafe, but a guest o...

I'm often asked if it's intimidating cooking for celebrities who come to The River Cafe. My response is that the guests who really worry me are other chefs. It's a bit like that today as I'm about to interview the interviewer, Mariella Frostrup. I was once the subject with Mariella. She wrote in her introduction ‘Despite such eloquence, Ruthie is a disaster of an interviewee.' Intimidated. Why wou...

In September, The River cafe will be 36 years old. One of the pleasures of having a restaurant for so long is watching the second generation—now even a third generation—of our early customers grow up. Adwoa Aboah's parents, Charles and Camilla, have been part of the River Cafe Family since we opened. And Adwoa has gone from a child eating pasta, butter and cheese, and then playing on the garden ou...

Author of books on Art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, French history, and now Foreign Bodies explores medical history - Simon Schama is one of the broadest and most influential historians of our time. His television series -  ‘Civilisation’ ‘ The Story of the Jews’ and ‘The Power of Art’ have reached millions of viewers. The world knows this about Simon Schama, but I know something else -...

Ian Wright does many things I could never dream of doing. He used to play for football for Arsenal in front of thousands of people and now is a television pundit in front of millions. But we do share a lot, as well. Concern for healthy eating for children, advocacy for social justice, a fairer society, and an end to racial discrimination. Today on Table 4, we're going to get to know each other bet...

Today, we're here at the Cannes Lions Festival and have swapped the River Cafe kitchen for a galley on the most beautiful boat in the harbour, which I'm happy to say is safely tied up. Bob Pittman is a captain, sort of, as he is of so many great things. He created MTV, which changed the way we listen to music, and most recently iHeart Media, which changed the way we listen to everything else. Bob...

My friend Mary McCartney is a filmmaker. She's a photographer. She's a writer, and she's a cook. She comes from a family of creatives who are also passionate eaters, and she has continued the beautiful legacy of her mother, Linda McCartney, who taught her the importance and the beauty of good food and cooking for people you love. I can't think of anything nicer than being with this wonderful woman...

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is smart, she's funny and she's kind. She's a beautiful poet and a photographer, whose black-and-white images evoke for me, Dorothea Lange. Her latest book, Promise , tells the story of two Black sisters growing up in New England during the Civil Rights movement, the story of food at the table and food in the kitchen. For food is important to Eliza. Today in The River Cafe,...