What To Eat For How You Feel (the New Ayurvedic Kitchen - 100 Seasonal Recipes)

By (author) Divya Alter; By (author) Alter, Divya; Photographs by Brinson, William; Photographs by Brinson, Susan
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This indispensable kitchen companion brings the ancient art of delicious healthy cooking to the twenty-first century with flavours adapted for the contemporary Western palate.
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This indispensable kitchen companion brings the ancient art of delicious healthy cooking to the twenty-first century with flavors adapted for the contemporary Western palate.
 
Drawing on her many years of vegetarian cooking, catering, and teaching, in this book Divya Alter explains how to create flavorful meals with seasonal ingredients by applying Ayurvedic principles. With food combinations, methods of preparation, and healing spices customized for individual needs, this is an inspirational guide to achieving optimal health through a personalized way of living and eating.
 
This volume features 100 recipes for breakfasts, soups, salads, main dishes, one-pot meals, treats, and beverages in three seasonal-based chapters. It includes an ingredient guide along with recipes for staples such as cultured ghee, fresh cheese, yogurt, nondairy milk alternatives, dressings, chutneys, and spice blends.
 
Alter offers practical ways to bridge the ancient wisdom of food with modern living beyond the bound- aries of India. Dishes such as Asian-style Stir-Fried Red and Black Rice, Italian-style Spinach Risotto, and French-style Braised Root Vegetables are accessible to all and carry the healing benefits of Ayurvedic cooking.
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"Divya—a Bulgarian yogini with equal passion for flavorful food and holistic healing—shares her firsthand knowledge of how Ayurvedic principles have helped her in her struggles with her own health challenges over the years. In doing so, Divya Alter chronicles food’s powerful ability to transform our bodies and our health: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. She writes with the clarity of someone who has studied carefully and whose mastery of her subject spans the theoretical as well as the practical. Yet her words are always from the heart. As Divya tells her students, “Your love is the most important ingredient in everything you make.” 
Namaste, dear Divya, for offering your inspirational book as a gift to those looking to tap the healing power of food—deliciously. I’m so glad it found me."
— KAREN PAGE, two-time James Beard Award–winning author of The Flavor Bible and The Vegetarian Flavor Bible 

“Divya is a truly talented chef and healer, who creates perfectly mouthwatering dishes that are equally delicious, nourishing, and appealing to the eye. Her sattvic meals incorporate the balancing facets of Ayurveda to promote healing, wellness, and great digestion, and you can feel her heart and soul in her recipes! I recommend her meal program to all of my clients, and this book is a must-have for anyone wanting to live a healthy lifestyle and cook beautiful, healing meals at home.” 
— DR. PRATIMA RAICHUR, author of the bestselling book, Absolute Beauty: Radiant Skin and Inner Harmony Through the Ancient Secrets of Ayurveda 

“I have been a vegetarian for 45 years, in constant search for sumptuous, healthy, easy-to-digest Ayurvedic cuisine. I finally found it in Divya Alter''s exquisite cooking. Now Divya has written the perfect ‘how-to’ Ayurvedic cookbook and everyone can prepare—and enjoy—delicious, healthy eating at its best.”
— ROBERT ROTH, Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation, author of Transcendental Meditation
 
“Divya Alter''s joy in life is to please everyone she meets with her world famous delicious, nutritious cooking. Inspired by that joy, she has spent decades learning, practicing and teaching traditional Ayurvedic cooking. It is truly what s