Erlinda Enriquez Panlilio

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Erlinda Enriquez Panlilio grew up surrounded by food, her parents being in the foodservice business—the D & E, then the Sulo Restaurant in the Makati Commercial (now Ayala) Center, later the Sulo Hotel, and other hotels and a resort (Puerto Azul),  including an in-flight kitchen catering to international airlines, that came to be known as the Sulo Group.

She has a BSHE degree, major in Foods and Nutrition from the University of the Philippines (1959). She also studied in the School of Hotel Administration of Cornell University. In 2000 she obtained a M.A. in English Studies, major in Creative Writing, from the U.P. Part of her thesis became an award-winning book, Teacher to Tycoon—The Life and Times of Trinidad Diaz Enriquez (Anvil, 2000)—“Best Biography” for 2000 at the National Book Awards of 2001.  The subsequent books she edited were likewise awarded by the Manila Critics Circle in its annual National Book Awards.
Ms. Panlilio is also a visual artist. She was the Hotel Intercontinental’s featured artist in its lobby art gallery where she exhibited her oil paintings (her second solo show) on the theme of doors from Sept. 18 to Oct. 9, 2003.

List of publications: Teacher to Tycoon: The Life and Times of Trinidad Diaz Enriquez, Anvil Publishing,  2000

                    Coed. with Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, Why I Travel and Other Essays by Fourteen Women,  Anvil Publishing, 2000

                    Ed., From This Day Forward: Widows and Widowers Write, Anvil Publishing, 2002

                    Ed., Comfort Food, Anvil Publishing, 2003

                    Coed. with Herminia R. Fajardo, Holding Up Half the Sky: Success Stories in the Economic Empowerment of Women, Milflores Publishing,  2001

                  “Slow Food: Philippine Culinary Traditions” (Anvil 2005). Coed with Felice Sta. Marie.

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