Food Film Opens

"The Future of Food," a documentary written and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia (the widow of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia), opens in Manhattan today.

The film — which The New York Times describes as a "sober, far-reaching polemic against genetically modified foods" — deals with growing concerns over how our crops are produced and how science is altering the foods we eat.

The Times’s Stephen Holden writes that the overall attitude of filmmaker Garcia "might be summed up with the scolding slogan `It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.’"

Sounds like an intriguing film. Plan to check it out soon.