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Designed by Rogan, this lunchbox comes with ear-protective muffs, a noise warning placard and a red lever on the top implying that if you push it something extremely loud will happen. (Katie Sokoler/Gothamist)
The third annual Lunchbox Auction to raise money for the Food Bank for New York City kicked off last night with a celebrity fundraiser at Milk Studios in the Meatpacking District. Also benefiting The Lunchbox Fund of South Africa, the auction features over 77 lunchboxes custom designed by celebrities (and/or their handlers). Among the more eye catching boxes were avant-garde Chicago chef Grant Achatz's abstract deconstruction of a lunchbox, Tony Bennett's painting of a happy pooch (see below), and Michael Stipe's three lunchboxes with bronze cassettes and a camera embedded in molds of chocolate, salt and jello.
Stipe was on hand to help auction off the jello lunchbox last night, and promised to help the winner dig out the cassette tapes with his own hands. (The hands that made Murmur!) After a prolonged bidding war, chef Mario Batali won out with a bid of $20,000. Batali then helped auction off a lunchbox full of black truffles provided by chef David Chang. Raising one truffle up to his nose, he inhaled deeply and told the crowd, "If you could smell what I'm smelling you would never go to a whore house again." The lunchbox also came with a private dinner to be prepared by Chang in the winner's home; bidding peaked at $9,000. The other lunchboxes are being auctioned off online; you can place your bids until midnight on December 18th.
According to their website, Food Bank for New York City "provides food for 1.3 million New Yorkers through its network of more than 1,000 emergency and community food programs throughout the five boroughs — including soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, low-income daycare centers, Kids Cafes and senior, youth and rehabilitation centers... The Lunchbox Fund of South Africa provides impoverished children in the township schools of Soweto often their only meal of the day. Many of these children are AIDS orphans who are caring for their siblings, and whose performance at school is diminished without food. Receiving food encourages these children to stay in school and obtain their education."
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Unsurprisingly, Rachel Ray's box is the worst of the bunch.
Never missing an opportunity to self-promote, Rachel Ray decides to make her box an ad for her own show. Stay classy, RayRay!
GP's, "more crappy children's artwork!"
How does Salman Rushdie manage to get cute young chickies? Is it his enormous... intellect? Ugh, that RR lunchbox... I can almost hear her braying like a laryngitic donkey right now.
I hear when Rachel Ray's husband makes use of her box, he has to say "yummo!" while he's doing his biz.
They should have had Robyn Byrd show her box at the auction.
"If you could smell what I'm smelling you would never go to a whore house again."
I think he misses the point or perhaps frequents the wrong whorehouses.
The limousine liberals and their cutesy fundraisers are so quaint.
So the celebrities decorate a lunch box and someone else makes the donation by buying it? How about shaking down the celebrities for the cash and save the money spent on the party?