I’m a little behind on my Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations on the Travel channel, but last night I went for the TIVO double banger and checked out the London/Edinburgh and Greece episodes. Fans, may know that Bourdain quit smoking last year around the time his daughter was born. Watching the new episodes and seeing a sneering Marco Pierre White and the Morcheeba dude blow smoke in his face while Bourdain keeps it straight-edge is a whole new sensation.

The thing is, we’ve also noticed that Bourdain has been killing more animals lately. In the England episode, he drops a deer and gets annointed with blood by Marco Pierre White, and in the Greece episode, he obliterates a quail from 10 feet away with a shotgun. We wonder if maybe the 38 years of nicotine followed by six months without has Bourdain on edge? Bourdain flashes a sheepish grin like a stripper after getting another dollar bill shoved in her g-string, after his every kill, so we’re pretty sure he’s not enjoying it. Someone get him some nicorette, stat.