Naomi Pomeroy, chef, author, and an icon in Portland’s culinary scene, died July 13 at the age of 49. Family told Portland Monthly yesterday that they fear Pomeroy drowned during an inner tubing excursion on the Willamette River.
Pomeroy — through her gritty-meets-refined ethos at early supper clubs and, later, at her influential Northeast Portland restaurant Beast — helped define the Portland culinary scene that so captured the national imagination in the early aughts. Each of Pomeroy’s moves felt on the pulse, even a portent for what was to come next: freewheeling dinner parties predated the pop-up boom; early concepts flaunted the potential of whole hog cooking; prix
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