Skip to Content
Talkhouse home
Talkhouse home
Podcast

Arlo Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant (Nutritional Anthropology with Ellen Messer)

“Alice’s Restaurant: Breaking the Links Between Hunger and War”

By Sing For Science

5:00 AM EDT on October 12, 2022

Episode Info

  • Season3
  • Episode2
Arlo Guthrie talks about the lyrics to the 1967 anti-war masterpiece, “Alice’s Restaurant” - we talk at length about the 1960s and being Woody Guthrie’s son. Tufts University Nutritional Anthropologist Dr. Ellen Messer talks about her awakening as a scholar-activist in the 1960s and the foundations of her term “food wars” which describes the relationship between food scarcity and armed conflict.

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter