917. - Ruthie Rogers

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Ruthie Rogers is a chef and owner of The River Café, a favorite London restaurant of ours. Her newest book, Table 4 at The River Café, is out next week. We chat with her from her room at Claridge’s about the derp contingency, Childish Gambino voicing Yoshi, Rihanna’s house getting sprayed, recipes as part science and part poetry, primary colors, hot pink pizza ovens, virtuous cookery, coming up on Julia Child, “atmosphere only” restaurants, dining room proposals, her book on lemons with Ed Ruscha, Le Bernardin, how she touches a table, her martini order, and our comfort foods. instagram.com/ruthierogers twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	how long gone let's get restarted in here jason was having some zoom issues but we're fucking
0:22.2	back baby the the computers are firing the zoom recorders are recording uh there's a shirtless
0:27.9	guy sweeping up the basketball court like a good samaritan in my in my purview so things are
0:32.8	looking good for me jason that's so huge for you congrats yes tuesday morning this is uh day three of podcasting
0:41.4	in a row i'm only mild it's affecting bean more than anything she's she's thrown off by this
0:48.4	obtuse schedule sure pray for well beans got rest you know bean's gonna have the door open the rest
0:53.4	the week could be worse oh doors open like metaphorically speaking no no i was meaning literally but
0:58.7	metaphorically we can apply that as well we mean like like are you talking about when i when i'm
1:04.1	recording the podcast and the on air light comes on that's when bean starts going yeah bean
1:09.4	doesn't like on air time but then when it's just editing hours no on air
1:13.9	beans happy she's walking into the studio laying in the bed it's all good yeah exactly yeah
1:18.3	I mean I don't why do you keep oh whatever let's talk about Travis Kelsey's mom's renovations
1:25.6	because that's what that's what I've been seeing the most of online
1:28.7	which is I'm a little confused is there something I'm not getting Jason or is that just the
1:34.1	funny bit about it yeah I think it's one of those things where slow news day and you know there's a
1:41.5	little bit of an announcement I suppose the the mother-in-law of Taylor Swift remodeling the house is more newsworthy than most news today, just in terms of eyeballs and engagement.
1:55.5	You know what I mean?
1:56.2	Yes, yes.
1:56.9	If we're judging it on that, yes.
1:58.3	More people are privy to that than what's going on in Qatar or, you know, a Kuwaiti missile defense base or something like that.
2:06.5	But I think what happened with it was it was just such an easy fun prompt to create memetic replies to that everyone couldn't help but you know get a little ribcade shot in
2:20.6	there because you know so you get the you know do you remember where you were when you found out
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