FLAVORS FROM HOME: 
              REFUGEES IN KENTUCKY SHARE THEIR STORIES 
                                     AND COMFORT FOODS

Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Charity/Fundraising Cookbook in North America!

Rated 5/5 stars by San Francisco Book Review: "These short biographies are uplifting and the recipes tantalizingly appealing."

                     Available in bookstores and online! 
                 (Visit www.aimeezaring.com for more information.)


“Food is our common ground, a universal experience." 
                                                   -- James Beard, American chef and food writer

“If you want to know about our culture, look to the food.”
                                                                                   -- "Zaw," Burmese refugee


Early Reviews for FLAVORS FROM HOME:
“In this beautifully written and completely original book, Zaring has done much more than interview refugees and collect their recipes.  Instead, she has managed to articulate what binds us all together as people hungry for good food, community, and places to call home. Flavors from Home is an important and delightful book that will make you realize that we all have much more in common than we think, will shine light on culture and history that we don’t often hear about, and will make your mouth water.  Delicious in every way.”  
– Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and Eli the Good and NEH Chair of Appalachian Studies at Berea College


“We hope that the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky will read this book to better understand the positive changes being made by these refugees. It will appeal to everyone with a love of food and/or an interest in evolving culture.”
—Paul & Angela Knipple, authors of The World in a Skillet: A Food Lover’s Tour of the New American South
  • Aimee Zaring has an M.F.A. in Writing from Spalding University and a B.A. in English and Psychology from Bellarmine University. She is the recipient of two artist enrichment grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the most recent of which assisted in the writing of Flavors From Home. She is also the recipient of the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
     
    She has taught ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for eight years through Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services, Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Jefferson County Public Schools, Global LT, and individual corporate clients.

    Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, her writing (including interviews, book reviews, essays, and short fiction) has appeared in Adirondack Review, Arts Across Kentucky, Blood Lotus, Edible Louisville, The Courier-Journal,  Lexington-Herald, New Southerner, and The Rumpus.