You know you're in an authentic Italian eatery when conversations behind the counter are in Italian. And that's how the talk flows at Anthony's Italian Deli, where Marco Saia easily switches from Italian to English and back again.

Though he was born in Baton Rouge, Saia's first language was Italian, taught to him by his parents, Anthony and Maria Saia, who opened Anthony's Italian Deli in 1978 after moving to the Capital City from their native Italy. Anthony was born in Sicily; Maria in Bergamo, north of Milan.