Maciej Kuroń (; 8 March 1960–25 December 2008), was a Polish journalist and culinary publicist. He was a host of television culinary shows, which made him very popular in Poland. He was the son of

Jacek Kuroń Jacek Jan Kuroń (; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Kur ...

. In 1980, as a student of Pedagogical College in

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, Kuroń represented Olsztyn's students in Warsaw's Founding Committee of the Independent Students Union. During the

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, he was in 1982 expelled from college by Communist authorities. Later, he studied at

The Culinary Institute of America The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) is a Private university, private culinary school with its main campus in Hyde Park, New York, and branch campuses in St. Helena, California, St. Helena and Napa, California; San Antonio, Texas; and Singa ...

, and in 1998 became host of a TV show ''Cook together with Kuroń'', presented by the TVN. He also authored several cookbooks, including ''Polish Cuisine''. A father of four, Kuroń died unexpectedly of acute

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, on 25 December 2008 at his home in Izabelin near Warsaw. He was buried on 7 January 2009, at the

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. On the same day, President Lech Kaczynski awarded him the Officer's Cross of the Polonia Restituta "for outstanding achievements in his work for democratic change in Poland and for his involvement in shaping the social attitudes of the Poles".

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