Naomi Pomeroy

Her television appearances also include serving as a judge on Top Chef, Bobby's Triple threat, and Knife Fight.

[14] According to Publishers Weekly, the working title for the cookbook was Oui: Lessons from an Award-Winning Self-Taught Chef.

[15] Pomeroy's cookbook, released in 2016, was entitled Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking.

[16] Her restaurant, Beast, closed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Pomeroy used the space for a new venture called Ripe Cooperative, a marketplace that also sold meal boxes for customers to finish at home until 2022.

[2] In 2009, Pomeroy was listed by Food & Wine as one of the ten best new chefs in the U.S.[18] As a restaurateur, she was recognized in the October 2010 issue of Marie Claire as one of the eighteen most powerful women in business.

[19] O, The Oprah Magazine mentioned her career endeavors and named her as one of the top ten "women on the rise" for 2010.

[2] On July 13, 2024, she drowned in the Willamette River, near Corvallis, when she fell from an inner tube she was floating on amid a fast current.