You'd think fried rice would be pretty simple and straightforward, but the cult of Uncle Roger has convinced people that it's a gourmet food that can only be prepared in a very narrow range of legitimate ways, and everything else is just garbage.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. I've got one foot in the purist camp and one foot in the innovator camp. I admit, though, that I do find it annoying when a chef takes a traditional dish and blithely says he's going to "put his personal twist" on it (I'm guilty of this myself, therefore I annoy myself). It might be better to see whether he can recreate the original, traditional dish first before he does his little eisegesis.
I guess, more and more, I'm like the East Asian calligraphy teachers who insist that you copy the masters perfectly before you dare to get creative on your own.
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