Flavors from Home

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

In Flavors from Home, Aimee Zaring shares fascinating and moving stories of courage, perseverance, and self-reinvention from Kentucky's resettled refugees. As these individuals and their families struggle to adapt to a new culture, the kitchen often becomes one of the few places where they are able to return "home." Preparing native cuisine is one way they can find comfort in an unfamiliar land, retain their customs, reconnect with their past, and preserve a sense of identity. 

Featuring more than forty recipes from around the globe, Flavors from Home reaches across the table to explore the universal language of food.

Praise for Flavors ....

Zaring should be commended for transcending language and cultural barriers to document the international language of all people―food and cooking.

— Maggie Green,
author of The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook

In Flavors from Home, Aimee Zaring has crafted not just a book of delicious recipes, but a beautiful meditation on exile, place, and cultural identity. The moving stories of these cooks and their recipes are a feast for the spirit.

— Jason Howard,
author of A Few Honest Words

Food is best served with a healthy portion of love and personality. That's exactly what Aimee Zaring's scrumptious book, Flavors from Home, delivers. In addition to accessible culinary instruction on an array of global recipes, readers receive the vivid life histories of the cooks themselves. What comes through most poignantly is the resilience and hope of these cooks―people who change the place they've come to as much as they are changed by it.

— Neela Vaswani, author of You Have Given Me a Country

Available online and locally.

Available online and locally.

  • “Food is our common ground, a universal experience."

    James Beard, American chef and food writer

  • "So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being."

    Franz Kafka

  • “If you want to know about our culture, look to the food.”

    "Zaw," Burmese refugee

Part of the proceeds from this book will help support the efforts of Kentucky Refugee Ministries and Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services.

Special thanks to the Kentucky Foundation for Women, Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services, Kentucky Office of Refugees, all the cookbook contributors, photographer Julie Johnston, manuscript advisors and reviewers, test kitchen volunteers, and all my friends and family for their encouragement and faith in this project.