ABOUT FULL & HAPPY
Full & Happy is a food and lifestyle brand born out of a small cooking studio, which was lovingly created in 2014 and operated in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia until 2017. There, Onna hosted over 150 private events including cooking lessons, private dinner parties, small concerts, and a yoga-dinner series called “The Yogi’s Table”. Since growing out of the studio, the Full & Happy brand has found new focus in food and restaurant marketing, recipe testing & development, writing, and on occasion, personal chef services (which mostly means cooking for her toddler, friends, family, and neighbors!)
ABOUT ONNA
Onna Perella has been cooking since she was a kid. Her first and most formative job was making milkshakes and flipping burgers as a short-order cook at the luncheonette counter of Lyon’s Pharmacy, an “old time” pharmacy in her hometown of Elkton, Maryland. There, she learned to be scrappy- to make the most of what was around, to multitask, to work hard, and to cook honestly. These tenets followed her as she worked toward a Food Marketing degree from Saint Joseph’s University (Class of 2008) and the French Culinary Institute (2011). At Tandem Associates, a marketing agency in the Philadelphia Suburbs, she developed her business skills while moonlighting at a restaurant in Center City. Her cooking style is influenced by her experiences as a line cook (Corton, Sampan), pastry cook (Safran Turney Hospitality Group), Food Stylist (Emeril Lagasse, Martha Stewart, Lucinda Scala Quinn, QVC, HSN), Caterer (Questlove’s Food), and as a personal chef for two terminally ill cancer patients. She lives in Ardmore, Pennsylvania with her husband Chris and daughter Evie.