Sara La Fountain

Sara La Fountain, (born Saara Kuronen in Santa Barbara, California in 1981) is a Finnish-American chef, cookbook author, designer, and television personality.

La Fountain was born to a French American father and a Finnish mother, after they had met during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Her mother is an artist and her father runs a family business, managing a restaurant and a hotel in New York. After her parents separated, La Fountain moved to Finland with her mother, who then remarried with Kosti Kuronen, the Finnish architect, who has designed around 50 golf courses in Europe.

Raised in the Eira neighborhood of Helsinki, and in a family estate in Kirkkonummi, La Fountain also spent summers at Pyhäniemi Manor, owned by her mother's family at the time. For schooling, La Fountain attended the Waldorf School of Helsinki.

La Fountain was engaged with the film and music video director Antti Jokinen between 2005 and 2011.

As of 2013, La Fountain has apartments in the Kruununhaka neighborhood of Helsinki and the SoHo neighborhood of New York City.

La Fountain started her career as a trainee at Sokerileipuri Alenius, a traditional confectioner in Ullanlinna, Helsinki. She then went on to study at the Culinary Institute of America, a culinary school in Hyde Park, New York, also working in a local restaurant.

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