Maciej Kuroń

Maciej Kuroń (; born 8 March 1960 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, died 25 December 2008 in Izabelin), 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. Ku ...

. 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

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. During the martial law in Poland, he was in 1982 expelled from college by Communist authorities. Later, he studied at

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, and in 1998 became host of a TV show ''Cook together with Kuroń'', presented by the

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. He also authored several cookbooks, including ''Polish Cuisine''. A father of four, Kuroń died unexpectedly of acute heart failure, 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

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awarded him the Officer's Cross of the

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"for outstanding achievements in his work for democratic change in Poland and for his involvement in shaping the social attitudes of the Poles". 1960 births 2008 deaths Burials at Powązki Cemetery Writers from Warsaw Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta Culinary Institute of America alumni 20th-century Polish journalists {{Poland-bio-stub