Season 3 · Episode 2
Arlo Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant (Nutritional Anthropology with Ellen Messer)
“Alice’s Restaurant: Breaking the Links Between Hunger and War”
Sing for Science · Talkhouse
October 12, 202256m 11s
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Show Notes
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.