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Jerry Sorlucco, Author of "The Two Martini Diet"
All You Need to Know about Jerry Sorlucco
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, within walking distance of Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1937: the only child of Marie and Jerry Sorlucco, both Italian immigrants.
My early education was in the New York City public school system, which was a model of excellence in its day. World War Two was very much part of my young life, including the warplanes that were often featured in newsreels and the movies of the day. From that, and a very close uncle that served in the naval as an aircraft mechanic, I was drawn to aviation and at the age fifteen to enroll in a flight school at Deer Park Airport on Long Island. Most of my high school life was spent working the maximum number of hours allowed after school as a Western Union bicycle messenger—this was decades before facsimile and e-mail. The job bought many hours of flight training on the weekends when I rode the Long Island Railroad out to Deer Park; I’d often find a bed or a light aircraft to sleep uncomfortably in on Saturday nights, which was many times quite an adventure in itself. In the end I got a job as a line boy at the airport, a furnished room to call home, and graduated from a local high school. The major accomplishment however was my flying credentials: at the age of eighteen I was a licensed commercial-instrument pilot, and a certified flight instructor. From this point forward I was paid to fly, not the other way around.
What followed was a great, forty-year, career as an airline pilot that I wrote about in a memoir titled, A Good Stick; An Airline Captain Lives the History of 20th Century Commercial Aviation, published in 2005. Along the way I attended Queens College in New York for two years as my career permitted, loved English literature and began to write as part of my work in air safety and union activities as an officer of the Airline Pilots Association.
When forced to retire at age sixty by Federal Air Regulations in 1997, my mind naturally turned to public service and politics, another passion brought about by a lifetime of reading history. I lived then and now in northern New Hampshire, a state noted for having the first in the nation presidential primary and its resulting retail politics. In 2002 and again in 2004 I ran unsuccessfully for the New Hampshire State Senate as a progressive Democrat in a historically conservative Republican district. Although losing the elections I managed to vitalize the Democratic Party in northern New Hampshire and helped turn New Hampshire from “red” to “blue’ in subsequent elections. The experience led me to write my second book, Facing Fascism; The Threat to American Democracy in the 21st Century, published in 2007.
The writing of my current title, The Two Martini Diet; How I Lost 100+Lbs While Eating Well and Having a Drink, was brought about by the fact that I achieved a major weight loss in a society that is killing itself from obesity. I want people to know how I did without feeling deprived and even have a drink or two in the process. The message is simple, if I can do it, you can do it—here’s how. I truly want to help people live longer, healthier lives. The sad fact is that 75 percent of the astronomical coast of health care be attributed to three factors: obesity, lack of physical activity, and smoking. The cost trajectory is not sustainable. A fact recognized by President Obama’s wife, Michelle heading up an effort to fight the obesity epidemic.
I live in a lovely house on top of a hill overlooking the Connecticut River. The view is fantastic, the nighttime sky reminds me of my frequent flights across the North Atlantic, which I loved. I share our home with my wife Sue, Airedale Spencer, and Tiger, a Bengal cat. Just last week Spencer’s sister, Tracy, died of a rare immunological disease—it was a great loss. The loving bond between pets and people is unique. Stay tuned for my next book, I shall write about it.
Jerry Sorlucco
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