Anthony Bourdain’s estate getting auctioned, including famed duck press

A portion of the estate of Anthony Bourdain will be exibited in New Braunfels in October as part of an online auction. A portion of the estate of Anthony Bourdain will be exibited in New Braunfels in October as part of an online auction. Photo: Alex Welsh /New York Times Photo: Alex Welsh /New York Times Image 1 of / 7 Caption Close Anthony Bourdain’s estate getting auctioned, including famed duck press 1 / 7 Back to Gallery

Food nerds take note: Hundreds of items from the estate of late Anthony Bourdain’s estate will be auctioned off online, and a many of those items will be in shown in previews open to the public — and, yes, the duck press will be one of them.

Forty percent of the auction’s hammer price will be donated by Bourdain’s surviving family to help fund the Anthony Bourdain Legacy Scholarship at The Culinary Institute of America, from which he graduated in 1978. The scholarship was established primarily to support CIA students pursuing a semester abroad to dive deep into food cultures across the globe, continuing the late culinary and travel icon s legacy of crossing borders and boundaries.

The nearly 200 lots of Bourdain’s possessions will be sold by art and antiquities expert Lark Mason of “Antiques Roadshow” fame in an auction at iGavelauctions.com, his online auction business.

Among the objects coming to the previews in New York, Texas and Georgia is Bourdain’s near-legendary chrome-plated duck press, predicted to sell for $200 to $300. The device is a relic of French cookery used to squash the carcass of a roasted duck to release juices then made into an elaborate sauce spiked with cognac. Bourdain sparked a revived interest in the device after featuring it on a 2011 episode of his Travel Chanel show “The Layover.”

For more information, go to iGavelauctions.com or call 212-289-5588.

Potential buyers will be able to preview the estate items online starting Oct. 2, and bidding will be open Oct. 9 through Oct. 30.

To read more details about the items to be auctioned and the CIA scholarship established in Bourdain’s memory, please read the full story at ExpressNews.com.

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