An Angel in the kitchen
By Carol Smith
Easton Chronicle
August 6, 2004

Area chef’s business takes the stress out of daily dining decisions

                With the school year about to begin again, who wouldn’t like an angel in their kitchen to make sure healthy and good tasting meals find their way to the dinner table each night.
                Chef/Owner Jewels Quelly wants to take the stress out of the dining experience and provide customized and balanced meals: “Eating should be more than a bowl of cold cereal,” she said.
                Quelly is ready, willing and certified to help busy parents juggling a full life get food on the table with her AngelFood Personal Chef Service.
                Quelly’s menu service delivers meals ready-to-eat right to your door, complete with reheating instructions. The Culinary Institute of America graduate uses a commercial kitchen to prepare meals based on her clients’ food preferences. Her clients review the menus about a week before she is scheduled to deliver them.
                Going into her ninth year in business, Quelly said the benefit of using an experienced personal chef is the knowledge of food preparation she has.
                Quelly knows what to buy and when to buy it for seasonal items such as fresh vegetables and fruits. She shops at markets and stores where she knows she can trust the products.
                If one person in the house is vegetarian and the other isn’t, she can accommodate those meal preferences. Special diets such as Atkins low car, low fat or low sugar aren’t a problem either.
                Quelly’s mother, Nancy Crivellaro, who lives in Williams Township, Pa. doesn’t like to cook and her husband has an gluten intolerance and a dislike of garlic so Quelly prepares meals to take in those special needs.
                For her mother’s dinner, Quelly puts together an appetizer of fresh Jersey tomatoes and mozzarella sprinkled with olive oil and pepper. The main course is salmon with a soy honey glaze and pure sesame oil surrounded by new baby bliss potatoes that are small and tender.
                The 1985 Wilson High School graduate know back then as Julia Bauer had dreams of being a cosmetologist until her mother discouraged her because there were too many of them already.
                Since Quelly liked to cook she decided to enroll in her Vo-Tech’s food and hospitality classes. Today this school is known as the Career Institute of Technology. She credits her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage on her father’s side as giving her the love of cooking.
                Today with two children under the age of ten and a husband, chef/owner Quelly likes being in business for herself. “The restaurant industry is very difficult and I feel like I am beating life at it’s own game.”
                The desire to grow the business and have the flexibility to go to her children’s plays and school events takes skill and planning but Quelly is up for the challenge and adventure. She schedules about 15-20 cooking dates or bookings a month. “Pleasing clients week in and week out is a great feeling,” she said.
                When she speaks of her clients, Quelly says they also like the adventure of a personal chef. For five years, Quelly has prepared for one client and not repeated a meal. Her customers often sign up for the long term. “We’re like family,” Quelly says of the relationship she develops with them.
                In addition to her personal chef service, Quelly caters for special occa such as baby and briday showers, housewarmings and gallery openings. If a custom decorated cake for a wedding or toher special occasion is needed, she can accommodate those requests as well. Quelly will be doing a bridal tea for 80 people in the next few weeks.
                AngelFood serves customers in Warren, Hunterdon, Sussex, and Somerset Counties in New Jersey and throughout the Lehigh Valley. For more information, you can visit the web site at angelfoodpcs.com or call 908-689-9530.