Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis
You focus in this book on four women, and especially towards the end, on two of these women who come to the forefront, which allows the reader to understand their fight at an individual level. How did this book come together, and how did you decide to focus on these women in particular?
Suzanne Cope: About eight years ago, which is not a random time, I was doing a lot of work on food studies. Food and culture was my focus at the time, and I was looking around at the people I knew in the food world, and I remember thinking, “Okay, people are sending pizza to protestors. People were protesting something at JFK airport, and now I’m thinking it probably had something to do with refugees, and other refugees who were here were raising money and awareness by cooking their home foods for people.” And I thought, “This is what resistance looks like in the food world.”