“India has become to American yoga what France is to American cuisine: an ancient source of wisdom to be reinterpreted, democratized and repackaged by its acolytes here.” Much of that reinterpretation is now happening around food: “yogier-than-thou” vegans; the use of bacon as “a yogic teaching tool”; a coach telling her class, “Ssssmell the squassshhhh waaaafting through the air.”