This edition: CAFÉ MARS AND CIVITA
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Original tape date: September 5, 2025. First aired: September 22, 2025.In this episode of Italics, we visit Café Mars, a Brooklyn restaurant reimagining Italian cuisine with creativity and a contemporary touch. Chef and co-founder Paul D’Avino shares how food can serve as a bridge between heritage and modern identity.
Later, we speak with Natalie Reuss, whose new documentary Civita offers a lyrical portrait of Civita di Bagnoregio, a fragile ancient hill town in central Italy known both as “the enchanted city in the sky” and la città che muore—“the dying city.”
Guest List
Stephen Cerulli Researcher, John D Calandra Italian American Institute
Paul D'Avino Chef & Co-Owner, Cafe Mars
Natalie Reuss Filmmaker, Independent
Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, PhD. Host, Italics
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