I want to enjoy this.  I won't.  I have grown to like a certain style of writing.  It's not terse like Hemingway, nor verbose like Mervyn Peake.  It's rolling around in the middle...and Zimmern isn't there for me.

 

His Television show is a staple of mine.  But let's be honest he doesn't write like he lives. 

 

Here's the thing that irks me.  The book is filled with repeated observations.  On occasion Andrew Zimmern relates the same observation he's already made.  He just repackages the observation and you get a full page on 'one thing' said in different ways.  And so it goes.  I loved doing that in High School.  Repeating stuff filled a thousand word essay the night before due date.  But not now, and not in this book.  I'll finish it..because it's not that bad.  Still, if you want something a little less Bizarre hunt down one of Jeffrey Steingarten's efforts.