HI, WE’RE ANTHONY & ASHLEY. 👋🏻

WE’re a husband and wife team who STARTED HAPPY COOKING to make get togethers and events a more fun, easy and happy experience for hosts, guests and chefs.

We’re here to bring your culinary vision to life with our team
of friendly, talented chefs. Scroll to learn more about the team.

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Having a chef in your home is a personal, special occasion. That’s why we hire chefs who not only have impressive culinary backgrounds, but who also are fun and friendly so that they fit right in with your group and put everyone at ease.

Every Happy Cooking team member is trained in our menus and processes to deliver a consistent, high quality experience. While each brings their own expertise and personality, all services follow the same standards to make hosting easy and enjoyable.

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    Specialty: Cooking classes & catering Favorite HC Dish: Lemon olive oil cake
    Hometown: Chicago & LA
    Fun Fact: Her vibrant garden and impressive cookbook collection (over 500!) play a big role in her cooking.

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    Specialty: Italian
    Favorite HC Dish: Black Garlic Meatballs
    Hometown:     Milwaukee
    Fun Fact:     Avid leatherworker

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    Specialty: Steakhouse and Latin-Inspired
    Favorite HC Dish: Creamy Lemon Bucatini
    Hometown:     Mineola, New York
    Fun Fact:     Worked in some of Austin’s top restaurants before becoming a personal chef ~10 years ago.

  • Specialty: Pretty plate-ups
    Hometown:     South Florida
    Fun Fact:     She has a background in food styling & content creation.

  • Bartender Garrett

    Specialty: Mixology & making guests feel right at home!
    Hometown:     Houston

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    Specialty: The fun business stuff happening outside the kitchen :)
    Hometown:     Chicago
    Fun Fact:     Has spent 10+ years in big tech working on SMB products & loves being a small biz owner herself.

  • Specialty: Southern cooking
    Favorite HC Dish: Truffle Mac ‘n Cheese
    Hometown:     Baton Rouge
    Fun Fact: Can retain a recipe after reading it once!

  • Specialty: Farm to table
    Favorite HC Dish: Seared scallops with an English pea purée
    Hometown:     Seattle
    Fun Fact:     He and his wife own a microgreens farm.

  • Specialty: Seafood dishes with French and Southern influence
    Favorite HC Dish: Anything custom!
    Hometown:     Port Aransas
    Fun Fact:     First kitchen job was shucking oysters and deveining shrimp.

  • Specialty: Fine dining, Mediterranean & Italian
    Hometown:     Turkey

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    Specialty: Floor clean-up
    Favorite HC Dish: Sticky Lemon Chicken
    Hometown:     Austin
    Fun Fact:     Zumi’s a trained therapy dog and Zia’s a pro squirrel chaser