In one of the better inside looks at how a kitchen in a real high end restaurant works, aside from Ratatouille, natch, last night's season finale of No Reservations featured Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert working the sauté and grill stations at Le Halles. Not only did it capture the real frenzy of a kitchen, it also showed Ripert and Bourdain doing some actual cooking, a sight not many have seen in recent years. (Ripert is often at Le Berardin, but as the episode points out, he rarely gets down and dirty.) Highlights include Bourdain cracking under the pressure of endless orders and musing on his and Ripert's imminent humiliation: "The desperation point hits at around 8 o'clock. At around 8:30 please god don't let me cry on tv, don't let me sh-t myself or throw up or pass out or fall into the fryolator...I mean how long has it been since Eric cooked a steak, much less hundreds of steaks? Frankly i'm thinking Eric is going down in flames." [Bourdain's Blog; previously]