Tamara Murphy

Tamara Murphy (1961 – August 11, 2024) was an American chef who owned and ran the restaurant Terra Plata in Seattle. In 1994, Food & Wine named her Best New Chef. In 1995, she won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii. Murphy suffered a stroke on August 7, 2024. She was kept on life support to allow for organ donation and died on August 11, at the age of 63.