Our team
 
The Angela Day team works very hard to bring the best recipes and cooking tips to The Star's readership, as well as creating and hosting quality cooking courses at our kitchen.
 
The Team: From left to right are: Lesley Hamlyn, Elinor Storkey, Chriselda Khatola and Jenny Kay

Jenny Kay
 Jenny heads up the Angela Day team and with their help produces the food articles that appear on Mondays and Thursdays in The Star newspaper. Jenny is passionate about food and loves interacting with readers at demonstrations and classes.
 
Elinor Storkey
 Elinor is The Angela Day Helpline coordinator who has a knack of finding the right ingredient for just the right recipe. She's a whiz when it comes to solving household problems.
 
Lesley Hamlyn
 Lesley is the Angela Day Kitchen co-ordinator. Lesley has travelled extensively and is passionate about Italian and Mexican food.
 
Chriselda Khatola
 Chriselda helps to keep the kitchen in good running order and is in charge of keeping it hygenically clean. She is also passionate about teaching disadvantaged children to cook.
 
Who we are
 
The Angela Day column is a not-to-be-missed full food feature in The Star newspaper on Mondays and Thursdays, which is syndicated throughout the Independent Group.
 
Angela Day takes pride in her enormous credibility – it has always boasted a test kitchen where all the recipes are tried, tested and perfected for readers.
 
Angela Day has developed a world-class, acclaimed cookery school at the Lifestyle Centre in Rand Park Ridge. It is here that Angela Day offers cookery demonstrations, hands on cooking classes and the kitchen’s burgeoning corporate team building component. They also host international and local chefs and cooks.
 
Angela Day has met the who’s who in the world of food – everyone from Prue Leith, John Tovey, Madhur Jaffrey, Aldo Zilli, Robert Carrier, Ainsley Harriott, Bill Gallagher, Heinz Brunner and the Naked Chef himself, Jamie Oliver.Image
 
The free Angela Day Helpline (011 836 -7181) is open on weekdays from 8.30am to 12.30pm where callers can get advice on food, recipes, stains and any other useful information. Readers can also write in asking for help (Angela Day The Star PO Box 1014 Johannesburg 2000) or send an email to us via our contact form.
 
Our history
 
The people in The Star’s Angela Day department have always been angels to thousands of South Africans – and that’s exactly how the name came about. They are the angels of the day for those whose culinary, household and other problems they cheerfully solve, and often field up to 100 queries a day.
 
The first Angela Day column – written by Lorraine Jacobs – appeared on June 20, 1964. The new venture, which included a telephone service, promised to help answer any domestic query relating to recipes and household and baby care. It was an immediate success and Jacobs and her team soon found themselves being legal experts, marriage guidance counsellors and a shoulder and ear for the lonely.
 
The name soon became a beloved institution as Angela Day and her team made friends far and wide.
 
During the past 40 years Angela Day has grown from a small black and white recipe column to a not-to-be-missed full food feature in The Star newspaper on a Monday and a Thursday, which is syndicated throughout the Independent Group.
 
Subsequent Angela Day’s have included Lorraine van Vledder, Paula Blacking, Helen Martin, Ruth Woolfson, Lyndall Popper, Hilary Biller and the present incumbent Jenny Kay. They’ve produced more than 12 best-selling cookbooks and the original blue cookbook is now a collector’s item.