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Ruth Rogers, Lady Rogers MBE (born 1948〔(Ruth Elias, Lady Rogers (1948-), Chef and restaurateur ), National Portrait Gallery〕) is an American-born British chef who owns and runs the Michelin starred Italian restaurant The River Café in Hammersmith, London.〔Adam Lusher (Record 10 women chefs win Michelin stars ) The Telegraph 17 Jan 2009〕〔Robert Winnett (River Cafe's Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers given MBEs in New Year's Honour's list ) The Telegraph 31 December 2009〕 She is the wife of the Italian-British architect Richard Rogers (Lord Rogers). ==Early and private life== Ruth Elias, known as Ruthie, was born in upstate New York. She inherited her left-wing politics from her parents.〔 Her 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.〔 He mother was a librarian and trade union activist, whose parents came to the US from Russia.〔(Ruth Rogers: a woman for all seasons ), Daily Telegraph, 18 November 2007〕 The family moved to Woodstock in the early 1960s; she recounts an anecdote of turning down an invitation to watch Bob Dylan and his band rehearsing in 1965.〔 She studied at Colorado Rocky Mountain School from 1964 to 1966, and then for a year at Bennington College in Vermont.〔(The Inventory: Ruth Rogers ), Financial Times, 21 April 2012〕 In 1967, her second (sophomore) year, she took a year out to come to England, accompanying a boyfriend who was a Rhodes scholar in Oxford. After she decided against returning to Bennington, she studied design at the London College of Printing from 1968. While in London, she joined the protests against the Vietnam War outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square in 1968.〔(Daily Telegraph Inside the world of Ruth Rogers ), Daily Telegraph, 7 June 2013〕 She met the architect Richard Rogers in late 1969.〔 Rogers was 15 years older, and at the time he was married to and in a professional partnership with his first wife Su Rogers (née Brumwell), with three young sons.〔 After Rogers divorced his first wife, he married Ruth in 1973. She accompanied Rogers when he moved to Paris for several years to supervise the building of the Pompidou Centre. They lived above a market in Le Marais, where she learnt the importance of seasonality, before moving to the Place des Vosges.〔 She then spent time in north Italy; Rogers's parents had moved to England from Florence. She lives with her husband in a two town houses in Chelsea, converted to a single dwelling by her husband in 1983.〔(The women who don't get out of bed for less than £10,000 a night ), The Guardian, 12 June 2005〕〔(My Space: Ruth Rogers ), The Guardian, 31 January 2010〕 They have two sons, Roo (born 1975) and Bo (born 1983). Their younger son Bo died suddenly in October 2011, aged 27. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2010.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Rogers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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