Expatriate and Yaowarat co-owner and famed chef Naomi Pomeroy was believed to have perished in an inner tubing accident close to Corvallis. According to Pomeroy’s relatives, she went inner tubing with her restaurant co-owner husband, Kyle Linden Webster. After their flotilla encountered a snag, it tipped over in the choppy, unclear waters. Webster was lucky to be safe on land despite the dangerous waters. Rescue squads were sent out without delay.
Less than seven days subsequent to Pomeroy’s tragic inner tubing accident, her body was located.
Around 10 a.m., canoeists on the Willamette River in Oregon called 911 after seeing a person in the water, according to the Benton County Sheriff’s Office. When marine deputies from the BC Sheriff’s Office arrived, they discovered a lifeless body on a bedrock ledge in roughly a foot or two of water in the river’s center.
She was found approximately half a mile upstream of Hyak Park.
Webster told the New York Times on July 16 that a branch in the water caused the fatal occurrence.
Speaking about Naomi, Kyle went on to say that her temperament has changed recently, describing her as more peaceful in the past six months than in her whole life.
In 1999, at the tender age of 24, Pomeroy started her professional culinary career with Ripe Catering. Ripe Cooperative is the result of her efforts to turn Beast, a coffee shop and tiny restaurant, into a marketplace for preorder meals. Their cocktail bar, Expatriate, was launched in 2013 by her and her husband. She launched her frozen custard restaurant, Cornet Custard, in June of 2016 and released her cookbook, Taste & Technique, in 2016.
Bravo and Top Chef stated that their deepest sympathies go out to Chef Naomi Pomeroy’s loved ones.
The pub she and her husband run, Expatriate, will remain open in her memory even though it was briefly shuttered on Monday in the midst of their grief.
On Southeast Division, where the Woodsman Tavern formerly stood, Pomeroy was constructing yet another eatery.
