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Sara La Fountain was born on 22 April, 1981 in Santa Barbara, California, United States, is a Finnish-American chef, author, and designer. Discover Sara La Fountain's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 42 years old?

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Age 42 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 22 April, 1981
Birthday 22 April
Birthplace Santa Barbara, California, United States
Nationality United States

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1980

La Fountain was born in Santa Barbara, California, to a French American father and a Finnish mother, after they had met during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

She has dual citizenship of Finland and the United States.

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 married 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.

1981

Sara La Fountain (born Saara Kuronen, April 22, 1981) is a Finnish-American chef, cookbook author, designer, and television personality.

Born in Santa Monica, California, she grew up in Finland.

After graduating at the Culinary Institute of America, she returned to Finland and started her own business.

She has written food columns and lifestyle articles for various Finnish magazines and newspapers.

She gained recognition for her cookbooks and her cooking shows, also appearing as a guest chef in several television shows.

Additionally, she has been involved in various brand collaborations with food companies and has also worked in tableware design and fashion modelling.

2005

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

In 2005, La Fountain starred in her own lifestyle TV series called Avec Sara on MTV3 in Finland.

Each of the 10 episodes had its own theme from brunches to birthday parties, karaoke nights and Japanese and Indian social evenings.

2006

La Fountain was awarded the Best First Cookbook award at the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for her debut book à la Sara in 2006.

In addition to the awards event, the Prime Minister of Malaysia also hosted a dinner party for the participants at his private residence.

2008

In 2008, La Fountain appeared on UKTV Food's popular Market Kitchen television series as a guest chef and starred in Perfect Day, which is a lifestyle television series sold to around 60 countries.

Perfect Day includes four well-known Nordic chefs (Tina Nordström, Andreas Viestad, Claus Meyer and La Fountain herself) introducing traditional foods, customs and culture of their own countries, including Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

In addition to the television show, La Fountain also starred in a 36-episode online series called A Perfect Day in Sara's Kitchen.

The book version of Perfect Day television series was published in 2008.

It includes recipes from all of the chefs and information on the various locations they visited in the course of the series.

2010

In 2010, La Fountain toured in the United States, including Miami, New York, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco, as part of the Slow Food USA charity programme.

She created various new dishes for the Cooking with Finlandia Vodka dinners at Fairmont Hotels, and proceeds were donated to Slow Food USA.

On her third book, Passion for Food, published by Tammi in 2010, La Fountain has said: "My book goes through all the seasons as visual images of food. Each month has its own chapter, which has 10 different recipes and dining section. I take note of the seasonal events, such as the picnic season in spring and the mushroom and berry crops season in fall, not forgetting the classic holidays".

The book was awarded a Best Cookbook Design award at the 2010 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

Since 2010, La Fountain has written her own blog, Passion for Fashion & Food, on the Internet and has blogged for a Finnish communication network DNA.

2012

In 2012, La Fountain appeared as a guest chef on the 5th season of New Scandinavian Cooking on American Public Television and filmed her new television show for Finnish TV called Saran ja Meri-Tuulin Metropolit (Sara and Meri-Tuuli's Metropolises), co-starring her friend Meri-Tuuli Lindström.

The show follows the hostesses' culinary journey around the world, including Cape Town, Istanbul, Madrid, Manila, New Orleans, New York City, Singapore, and Tel Aviv.

The same year she also did food demonstrations in a reality show for Asian Food Channel where she travelled to Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Manila.

2013

As at 2013, La Fountain had 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.

After returning to Finland from the Culinary Institute of America, La Fountain started her own business and was soon noticed by the Finnish media.

La Fountain has since written food columns and lifestyle articles for various Finnish magazines and newspapers, including Helsingin Sanomat, Ilta-Sanomat, and Seura, in which she had a weekly column, as well as other publications in Scandinavia, Europe and Southeast Asia.

La Fountain also arranges cooking courses, does food styling and has her own catering service.

She has also undertaken product development for different brands, including Fazer and Finlandia Vodka.

As of 2013, La Fountain has filmed new episodes for New Scandinavian Cooking and starred in her new cooking show 24Kitchen: Sara La Fountain, which has been sold to 35 countries around the world.

2014

In 2014 she made two TV shows for Fox Network, in English and in Finnish.

In 2022 she appeared on Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil "Helsinki".