Ruthie Rogers Sits Down with Celebs
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In Table 4 at The River Cafe, restaurant owner Ruthie Rogers shares conversations with her high-profile podcast guests including Paul McCartney, David Beckham, and Martha Stewart. Learn more about them through the relationships to food.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.7 | Ruthie Rogers is the author of Table 4 at the River Cafe, Conversations about Food and Life. |
| 0:51.0 | Ruthie is the co-founder of the River Cafe in London and an award-winning chef. |
| 0:55.1 | She is also the host of the podcast, Ruthie's Table 4, and the author, co-author of 13 |
| 1:01.2 | cookbooks, including the River Cafe Cookbook, River Cafe 30, and the River Cafe Lookbook. |
| 1:07.0 | She was awarded an MBE in 2010 and a CBE in 2020, both very big deals in the UK. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome, Ruth. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Bucked to talk about your book, Table 4 at the River Cafe. |
| 1:21.4 | You are podcaster, extraordinaire, restaurateur, conduit to every star imaginable, foodie, all the things. |
| 1:31.1 | That's the last way to start the day. I'm thanking you for having me on your fantastic podcast. |
| 1:38.8 | So it's a mutual thank you very much. So why don't you tell listeners how your book came to be. |
| 1:47.9 | It's such a creative offshoot of your podcast and your restaurant and everything. |
| 1:53.0 | Talk a little bit about, well, maybe actually back up and tell everybody about the restaurant |
| 1:58.3 | and starting that and how that became a podcast with recipes and then it |
| 2:03.9 | became a book. |
| 2:05.3 | Okay. |
| 2:06.0 | Well, I have a restaurant called The River Cafe. |
| 2:08.9 | I founded it in 1987 with Rose Gray, the late Rose Gray, who very sadly died in 2010. |
| 2:17.1 | The two of us were partners from the very |
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