Are those blue cornflower-emblazoned casserole dishes and cookware a little too retro for the modern age? Khalil Akhtar takes a look back an icon of 20th century design.

Corningware inventor dies

	It seems like everyone is a 'food blogger' these days.
	Even if you don't write a blog, maybe you follow people on Instagram who are constantly posting images of what they're eating.
	Meanwhile... major media sites like Buzzfeed and Vice have been expanding their food sections.  Cookbook sales are booming, and new food magazines are being launched.
	But as our food columnist Khalil Akhtar found out, some worry all that food writing is lacking diversity.
Check out Shayma Saadat at thespicespoon.com 
Check out Tim Mazurek at www.lottieanddoof.com

What is 'ethnic' anyway? Khalil Akhtar reports on food journalism's diversity problem.

To the uninitiated, pickleball is a type of racquet sport, a bit slower and gentler than tennis, and played in a court small enough to fit inside tennis court.
It is the court that is causing friction between some pickleballers and tennis players.
To the uninitiated, pickleball is a type of racquet sport......a bit slower and gentler than tennis, and played in a court small enough to fit inside tennis court.
It is the court that is causing friction between some pickleballers and tennis players.
Sidney resident and Peninsula Tennis Club member Warren Franklin explains.



In A Pickle Over Pickleball

CBC Radio food writer Khalil Akhtar speaks with Rich Cohen about Sam Zemurray.  

Sam Zemurray is the subject of Cohen's new book "The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King" published Farrar, Straus and Giroux.



Rich Cohen

	Frozen food sales are on the decline... thanks, in part, to better awareness and availability of fresh produce.
	That is causing some concern for dozens of major multi-national brands who depend on frozen food sales.
	A handful of those companies are hoping a new marketing campaign will remove the growing stigma about frozen foods.
	As our food columnist Khalil Akhtar tells us, the industry is going after customers at the farmers market.

FOOD-frozen food


	One of Britain's iconic culinary traditions... and major culinary exports... is waning.
	We're not talking about fish and chips.  We're talking about the OTHER national cuisine.
	English curry houses are declining in popularity.
	Our food columnist, Khalil Akhtar, explains how curry became became a global phenomenon thanks to the Brits... and what they need to do now to preserve the tradition.


Cf FOOD curry houses

INTRO:
It's gone from conception to viral sensation in a matter of weeks.
We're not talking about a new video on YouTube.
We're talking about a particular type of doughnut invented by a New York pastry chef last month.
Our food columnist, Khalil Akhtar, explains how an odd pastry become a global obsession.
