The host of “Beat Bobby Flay” said in his Instagram story, “The greatest gift I got from AB was turning me on to a world of Maine Coon Cats (including Nacho)… a gift that I’ll have forever.” Flay has ...

Bobby Flay, Ann Burrell (Photo by: Charles Sykes/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images) The post also showed a photo of Flay and Burrell cudding two of Burrell’s Calico Maine Coon cats.

All of your co-hosts (me included) were just alongside for the Anne Burrell ride,” the chef wrote in a heartbreaking tribute post after Burrell died Tuesday.

Bobby Flay is toasting to Anne Burrell. The celebrity chef, 60, shared a social media tribute Wednesday to Burrell, who was found dead in her Brooklyn home at age 55 earlier this week.