Globe Correspondent / September 3, 2008
WAYLAND – Dana Volman sets down her knife as she listens. Her eyes are closed for a moment, in a kind of culinary meditation.
“Imagine you’re a dancer,” begins German Lam, standing in chef’s whites next to her. “You have to hear the music, hear the rhythm. If you think of this as a chore, it’s going to show.”
Lam is something of a personal trainer—for the kitchen. A former restaurant chef, he now brings his skills to the homes of the busy, the timid, and the curious. He helps them with knife skills and saute techniques, and with intangibles, including his philosophy: enjoying what you’re doing.
