Famed Delaware chef and restaurateur Matt Haley dies in motorcycle crash in India
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [News Journal] by Patricia Talorico August 21, 2014
Wilmington - "This is for every Delaware chef, every Delaware restaurateur, it's for everyone in Delaware who has ever given back." - Matt Haley's James Beard acceptance speech.
Sussex County restaurateur Matt Haley may have been the only Delawarean to receive a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award, but he didn't care much about fancy foods.
Each month, Maria Mairlot, one of three Carmelite sisters who helped start La Esperanza, a Georgetown community service agency that assists Spanish-speaking immigrant workers, had Haley over for a meal.
Friends, colleagues and people whom Haley, 53, touched through his restaurants and much-honored global humanitarian work were stunned to hear of his death Tuesday night from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident in India....
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