Divya Alter

CO-FOUNDER, CULINARY DIRECTOR

Divya Alter is the Chef Co-owner of Divya's Kitchen, an Ayurvedic restaurant in Manhattan. She is also the author of What to Eat for How You Feel: The New Ayurvedic Kitchen (Rizzoli, 2017). As the Co-Founder and Director of Ayurvedic Health and Culinary Arts at Bhagavat Life, Divya has been teaching Ayurvedic vegetarian cooking in New York City since 2009. Divya has cooked in yoga ashrams and temples in India, Europe and the US for 30 years. Her cooking practice began in her mid-twenties when she moved to India, where for five years she studied yoga, philosophy, and Sanskrit at the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education. As an Ayurvedic nutritional consultant, Divya is a student of Vaidya Ramakant Mishra of the Shaka Vansiya Ayurveda lineage.