Naomi Pomeroy's Brined Chicken

This is a wow!

Naomi Pomeroy grew up cooking, learning from her mother. Me too. She makes soufflés. One of my favorite accomplishments was when my mother hosted a dinner party and asked me to make a Grand Marnier soufflé for dessert (after hers deflated). So when I heard Naomi had died in an inner-tubbing accident on the Willamette River near Portland, I wanted to lea…