Zeno's Bar & Grill

I had a date night on Saturday with my husband. We had a gift card from Morton's that was about to expire (that night as a matter of fact), so we had a delicious corn fed steak before watching a movie about the true cost of the meal. In the vein of Michael Pollan's experiment of buying a steer and following it through the food chain, two college friends rent an acre of land in Iowa to see where the corn they grow ends up. The two friends, and hence the viewer of King Corn, learn about government subsidies that keep the production of corn artificially high leading to the relatively new uses such as feeding it to cows and high fructose corn syrup.

As director Aaron Woolfe put it during the Q&A period after the screening, "Watching corn grow is kind of axiomatic for boredom." Luckily, this movie was anything but. It's in limited release now, but you can buy the DVD from the website. You'll never look at an ear of corn or a bottle of soda the same way again.

--Kelly