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Yamuna Devi

American religious figure, cookbook author, musician and teacher

Yamuna Devi

Born

Joan Agnes Campanella


(1942-05-19)May 19, 1942

Butte, Montana

DiedDecember 20, 2011(2011-12-20) (aged 69)
Occupation
Notable workLord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking (1987)

Yamuna Devi (also Yamunā Devī Dāsī; 19 May 1942 – 20 December 2011), born Joan Agnes Campanella in Butte, Montana was an American cookbook author, best known for her 1987 James Beard Foundation Award winning cookbook, Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking.

She was also a senior member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).[1][2]

Devi was part of the early 1960s Beat Generation in North Beach, San Francisco[3] before meeting A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in New York City in 1966; becoming an initiated disciple in 1967.[4][5] In 1968, together with