Anthony Bourdain auction: some of celebrity chef’s most cherished possessions to go on sale next month

Art by Ralph Steadman and a custom-made chef’s knife by master bladesmith Bob Kramer will be some of the items available for fans to buy

All money raised will go to his family and the Culinary Institute of America

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Some of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s most cherished possessions will go on auction next month, more than a year after the chef and writer’s death in June 2018. Photo: Alamy

Published: 8:00pm, 17 Sep 2019Updated: 8:00pm, 17 Sep 2019

More than 200 items owned by television star and food and travel icon Anthony Bourdain are being put up for auction 15 months after his death.

The online auction, which will take place in October, should bring in between US$200,000 and US$400,000, according to auctioneer Lark Mason.

The proceeds will go mainly to helping support Bourdain’s family: his ex-wife Ottavia Busia, and daughter, Ariane. Forty-per cent of the auction earnings will go to establishing a new scholarship named for Bourdain at the Culinary Institute of America for the study of international topics in food, and – in the spirit of globetrotting Bourdain – to give the recipient a chance to study abroad.

Bourdain, then a New York-based cook, gained fame as the bad boy of the kitchen with the publication of his first tell-all book, Kitchen Confidential, in 2000.

Street muralist Jonas Never’s mural ofBourdain on the side wall of a new restaurant and bar called Gramercy on June 16, 2018 in Santa Monica, California, the US. Photo: AFP

In the years that followed Bourdain became a television star with shows such as A Cook’s Tour, No Reservations and his final show, Parts Unknown.