Dinner and a Documentary Night: The Beautiful Truth

On Saturday my wife and I hosted a Dinner and a Documentary Night. Not only did we get to share our home and table with our friends,but in addition we all where able to screen a great Documentary. I love to cook so Saturday night was a blast for me. My amazing wife lets me cook all my odd foods and experiment in the Kitchen. Sometimes the experimentation works, and other times ... lets just say: it does not work as well. Likely, for my guests and myself the experimentation worked out really well.

My contribution to the menu was simple but tasty (recipes coming soon):

• Starter: Homemade Roasted Garlic and Red Pepper Hummus with Veggies and Pita
• Main Dish: Homemade Tomato and Basil Soup
• Dessert: Homemade Chocolate and Mint Ice cream made with Coconut Milk

My guests brougth some really yummy things too. Our friends Drew and Lori brought an awesome Asian Kinwa Salad, and our friend Tracye brought a really good Organic Red Wine.

After the amazing meal we started the movie.

The documentary again is called The Beautiful Truth. Firstly, movie is not what you think - it's not in any way a farce of An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. When the movie starts we are introduced to a true story of 15 year old boy named Garrett, who is completing a home school assignment. His assignment is to validate whether the claims and findings of Dr Max Gerson are true or false. Dr Max Gerson was a medical doctor during the 1930's and on, who pioneered the curing of illness and especially Cancer thought his therapy method now called The Gerson Therapy. Dr Gerson's therapy is highly controversial which made this movie all the more intriguing! How could a 15 year old boy prove or disprove something so controversial amongst and within the medical community? Answer: Well.

The father of Garrett is a major part of this movie - he is his own sons Narrator and cinematographer. It is downright heartwarming to hear Garrett's very own father narrate as we see his son travel around the country gathering interviews and information from countless doctors, cancer victims, experts, government officials and even the Gerson family themselves. One of the most appealing things about this documentary his that we almost feel like we an fly on the wall as we really see him find his answers and make conclusions for ourselves - the answers are not forced down to us as some documentaries feel. The ending is outstanding and I'm not giving it away. I however, must admit that for the last 30 minutes I was in and out of tears.

Check out the movie and leave a comment!

Recipes from the dinner will be posted soon. Stay tuned.


Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Gerson
http://www.gerson.org/
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Truth-Garrett-Kroschel/dp/B001J66JQ8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1278978192&sr=8-1



The Gerson Miracle