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A mosh-up of fact and well-oiled flights of fancy, Dunn's riotously funny story is destined to become the Bible of the 21st-Century Drinking Class.  Along with hilarious yarns involving celebrities, hapless Hollywood agents and executives, porn-star neighbors, and expensive liquor company events, this bawdy barroom confession contains cocktail recipes, product reviews, and wine and liquor history, as well as profiles of some of the giants of the spirits industry.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49588694876433,"sku":"GOR008116279","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50382825390353,"sku":"CIN1568583664G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1568583664.jpg?v=1750959112"},{"product_id":"living-loaded-book-dan-dunn-9780307718471","title":"Living Loaded","description":"\u003cb\u003eRead the book Sammy Hagar calls kick-ass, balls to the wall rock n roll cranked to ear-bleed levels. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany people drink, few do it professionally. My name is Dan Dunn and I consume alcohol for a living. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat's right. I get paid to run around boozing, carousing, and getting into all manner of trouble, all in the name of covering the adult beverage beat for one of the most iconic brands on the planet, Playboy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI hereby invite you to join me, as I conduct revealing hotel room interviews with porn stars in LA; go Zip Cat racing in Scotland with Stifler from American Pie; turn the notoriously posh Pebble Peach Wine Tournament into the opportunity for a 3-day bender (thank God for my trusty voice recorder); enjoy whiskey-fueled romantic encounters in alleyways behind East Village watering holes; get forcibly removed from a boxing match at a Vegas casino (thanks to an unfortunate misunderstanding involving lots of liquor, and the flag of Cuba); get dumped by my stripper\/med student girlfriend (mid-lap dance, no less) simply for not being husband material; wake up naked on a big-shot Hollywood producer's living room floor; and learn, the hard way, why NEVER to order an Irish car bomb in a Dublin pub. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong the way, I'll share with you the hard-won wisdom from a life lived loaded, including how to amass a kick-ass collection of bar memorabilia, to how to be Yankee and survive bars in the sticks, to how to maintain the perfect buzz during air travel. And for those of you really serious about cocktails, I've even included 16 original recipes created \u003ci\u003ejust for this book \u003c\/i\u003eby the world's best-known practitioners of the mixocological arts. You can thank me later. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bawdy barroom confessional that leaves no shot glass un-shot, no beer un-chugged, no potential paramour un-hit-upon, this is the most entertaining and honest book about the Drinking Life ever written. 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Former Playboy magazine nightlife columnist Dan Dunn has a made a career out of drinking. Yet this man's man-a connoisseur of beer and whiskey-knew next to nothing about one of the major drinks enjoyed the world over: wine. When a fateful tasting experience coincided with a serious existential crisis, Dunn decided to hit the road on a journey of discovery. To quench his thirst for knowledge (and be able to throw down with the experts), he would educate himself about the industry glass by glass, from winery to winery, in nearly every region in the United States. His bold 15,000-mile road trip took Dunn from Sonoma, California, to Pawley's Island, South Carolina, where he twirled, sniffed, and sipped glass after glass of a vast array of wines with vintners, savants, and celebrities, including Kurt Russell and \"The Most Interesting Man in the World,\" Jonathan Goldsmith. Dunn's mission was to transform himself from a heartbroken schlub who barely knew the difference between Merlot and Meritage, into a confident connoisseur capable of wowing others simply by swirling some fermented grape juice around in his mouth and pronouncing it \"troubling, yet brilliant.\"  In American Wino, Dunn shares it all-the good, the bad, the sublime. As his wine knowledge grows and becomes more complex, he shares it with the reader in the form of digestible, actionable nuggets in each chapter. It's like a wine-tasting course at your local community college extension program, only with more sex and less crushing despair. An intoxicating blend of travel writing, memoir, and booze journalism that pairs earthy humor with fine wine for hilarious and enlightening results, it is the story of one man's journey to find himself-and everyman's journey to better understand the true spirit of this divine elixir.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50343161168145,"sku":"CIN0062394649A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50343419511057,"sku":"CIN0062394649G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999091003665,"sku":"NIN9780062394644","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52519180042513,"sku":"GOR009314942","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52650696179985,"sku":"NLS9780062394644","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062394649.jpg?v=1751388215"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-dan-dunn.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}