Edilberto alegre biography
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Edilberto alegre biography
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In the book Biyaheng Pinoy: A Mindanao Travelogue, author Edilberto N. Alegre chronicled his extensive travels in Mindanao in 36 essays.
He wrote of places of great interest, his interactions with and lessons learned from indigenous people, and the distinctive ways of cooking food and how ingredients are sourced. These essays were distillations of source materials for his cultural research.
During the online book launch on Feb.
18, streamed through the Ateneo de Manila University’s YouTube page, Joycie Dorado-Alegre, the late author’s wife and a professor at the University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College (UPVTC), recalled that it took 30 years since Mr.
Alegre first journeyed South and 11 years after his death to get the manuscript ready for publication.
“To set forth on that