Well, I had never seen the term before (Father Steve, I reckon we all now have a hint of what you read in all your spare time ), but it makes sense: there is cookware, flatware (why called so, anyway?), and tableware, and though if there's "storageware" I haven't heard of that either, but it makes sense in our hurried world that an umbrella term would have been created. Or perhaps it was just someone's marketing ploy.
Gee--if you accidentally get something in your mouth that is unpalatable and you (hopefully discreetly) get rid of it into your napkin, does your napkin become foodware?

I think there are rather a lot of people these days who don't actually cook, or not very much. The people we bought our house from must have been like that. We found textured Berber carpet...in the kitchen. What on earth would you do if you spilled oil, milk, or dropped an egg?