(Airdate: November 25, 2025) Maryanne interviews Aaran Stark, Chef at Jefferson Healthcare. After five years of being closed to the public the café is finally open again. It closed for the pandemic and then construction of the new wing delayed reopening the café. Back pre-pandemic, the café was a favorite lunch haunt for locals who actually had no official business at the hospital. They came for the food! Stark is an immensely creative chef who both trained and taught at the Cordon Bleu. Patients and staff always had food during those five years. A new kitchen was constructed at the Fairgrounds and six trucks a day rushed meals the 2.7 miles to the hospital. That’s creative cooking!
