Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis
But I had this feeling that there had to be something else that we could learn from history. At the time I had a book proposal with all these stories about food as a tool for social change. I ended up pivoting to write Power Hungry, which was written during the pandemic. For my next book, I knew we were ready to travel again, and I’m Italian American, and so I shifted my focus to the Italian story in that food proposal that didn’t go anywhere. And I realized through the work of Power Hungry that it wasn’t so much about food. Food was really a manifestation of women’s work and feminized labor. Food was powerful in a lot of ways, like what you’re talking about in the epilogue. I realized when you’re looking at war, there’s not a lot of food in war, and that story would be limiting. And these other stories are amazing! So I was researching all the stories, all the women who could be potential protagonists. And I couldn’t believe I’d not heard of them.
