Hi all! This is a friendly reminder of our upcoming meeting this coming Saturday, Nov. 3. As usual we will meet from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit at 1400 Penn Avenue, Suite 201, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-4332. For detailed directions go to www.aiu3.net. The speaker will be Dr. Carla Lucente who is the Honorary Consul of Italy in Pittsburgh. She will explain her role as Consul in serving Italian-Americans. After this meeting PIP will break for December and January and resume our meetings for February, March, April, and May of 2002. PIP meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in anything Italian. Please join us and feel free to bring a friend. A few other notes of interest: Sat., Nov. 10, 5:30p-7:30p Heinz History Center, Library Reading Room Readings from the book East Liberty, by Pittsburgh native Joseph Bathanti. A book signing will follow. The event is free. Preregistration is required. "Mondo Mangia" Jill Ringle presents a one-woman show in which she serves up songs and stories of growing up Italian while cooking up big bowls of food that she shares with the audience. Raised by her Sicilian mother and grandmother, Ringle grew up believing that food = love. She created "Mondo Mangia" as a valentine to her mother. The audience gets two love stories. "They get the story of my love for family and the story of my family's love for food. The kitchens in my house, my mother's house and my grandmother's house were/are the center of the world. Everybody was in the kitchen all the time." Tuesdays through Saturdays, 8p, Sundays 2 p - now through Nov. 18 Lester Hamburg Studio Theater, Bingham & S 13th St., South Side Ticket Prices $21.00 to $32.00.