La Cucina at the Market Brunch Cooking Course for 2 people. Anna Maria Florio, the owner of La Cucina at the Market, is a Philadelphia native and the daughter of Italian-born parents from the Campania region of Italy. Her family brought rich traditions of la cucina with them when they emigrated to Philadelphia in the 1960s. Anna grew up speaking Italian in a family where the kitchen was the center of the house. After operating in the Reading Terminal Market for 7 years, La Cucina at the Market opened in Market East in 2016.