Aimee Zaring
Author. Educator. “Aim”fluencer.
About Aimee
Aimee Miller Zaring is the author of 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. She is the recipient of an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and two artist enrichment grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Aimee earned a B.A. in English and Psychology from Bellarmine University and an MFA in Writing from Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Adirondack Review, The Courier-Journal, and elsewhere.
Her writing reflects her interest in bringing people together, drawing attention to unheard voices, and helping others discover and use their unique gifts to bring hope and healing to the world. As a certified somatic practitioner and “Aim”fluencer, she encourages others to aim in the direction of their own internal compass so they can become less of who they’re not and more of who they authentically are.
Aimee lives in Northern Kentucky with her life partner, two bonus children, and Lizzie, a Pocket Beagle mix, rescued from a gas station in Mississippi.
Flavors from Home
Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award,
Best Charity/Fundraising Cookbook in N. America
What people are saying ….
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,
Poet Laureate of Kentucky (2023-2025) and author of Lark Ascending
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
Through the author’s entry into the kitchen and foodways of a representative cross section of our diverse refugee population, we truly are made to feel ‘at home’ with our new neighbors….This book plays a vital role in breaking down barriers. The universal language of food and the sharing in the breaking of bread, provide an ‘in’ for those unfamiliar with refugee resettlement who might be curious about all the newcomers in town but are unsure how to connect.
— Sophie Maier,
Immigrant Services Librarian,
Louisville Free Public Library