Studium Generale is a free lecture series presented by Peninsula College and supported by Centrum. Please join us for an engaging discussion with our featured guests. Events are held at Building 202 at Fort Worden's campus. No RSVP required!

Chef Arran Stark put “hospitality” into Port Townsend’s Jefferson Healthcare “hospital” with flair and fervor. His extraordinary skills and passion for fresh and local food at the hospital has been the proof-in-principle that hospital fare can rival restaurant fare in flavor. Chef Arran was trained in many of the best fine-dining, terroir-based kitchens around the country, and this heart-centered executive chef is the consummate creative and visionary. He has deep knowledge of the potent flavors and nutrients of ingredients of the earth and soil. He himself has recently returned to the soil by developing a home farm, which may be the ultimately journey of any chef with appreciation for terroir. Our conversation happens there in the heart of the summer heat in the open-air greenhouse.