Background
He was the son of Jacek Kuroń.
He was the son of Jacek Kuroń.
He was a host of television culinary shows, which made him very popular in Poland. In 1980, as a student of Pedagogical College in Olsztyn, Kuroń represented Olsztyn"s students in Warsaw"s Founding Committee of the Independent Students Union. During the martial law in Poland, he was in 1982 expelled from college by Communist authorities.
Later, he studied at The Culinary Institute of America, and in 1998 became host of a television 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 heart failure, on 25 December 2008 at his home in Izabelin near Warsaw. He was buried on 7 January 2009, at the Powązki Cemetery.