James Beard award-winning chef and cookbook author Naomi Pomeroy has died at age 49, according to multiple reports. Pomeroy’s family confirmed the death to Portland Monthly, which reported that Pomeroy drowned after being involved in an inner tubing accident over the weekend. Her husband, Kyle Linden Webster, and an unnamed third person were also on the float, but both survived, according to The Oregonian. KEZI reports that the accident occurred after the inner tubes, which were tied together, snagged while floating down the Willamette River on the evening of July 13.
Efforts by the Benton County Oregon Sheriff’s Office to recover Pomeroy’s body are ongoing.
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