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Award-Winning Chef Naomi Pomeroy Dies at 49 in River Accident

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Award-Winning Chef Naomi Pomeroy Dies at 49 in River Accident
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Naomi Pomeroy, a Portland-based chef and Top Chef Masters contestant who won the James Beard Award for Best Chef Pacific Northwest in 2014, died at 49 in an accident on the Willamette River. She was pulled under the water and trapped by her paddle board leash. Her husband and another person escaped. Pomeroy was known for her restaurant Beast and her bar Expatriate.

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  1. Naomi Pomeroy Dies: ‘Top Chef Masters’ Contestant And James Beard Award Winner Was 49  Deadline
  2. Acclaimed Portland Chef Naomi Pomeroy Has Died  Portland Monthly
  3. Public urged to keep an eye out for body of drowned chef Naomi Pomeroy along Willamette  KATU
  4. Naomi Pomeroy, 49, Chef Who Made Portland a Dining Destination, Dies  The New York Times
  5. Award-winning Oregon chef Naomi Pomeroy drowns in river accident  The Associated Press

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