食品研究有助于我们了解经济、健康、政治、历史和环境等重要社会进程。由韩国食物研究所主办的新刊Journal of Ethnic Foods于2019年1月通过BMC正式出版。该刊涉及跨学科的多个领域，包括文化人类学、人口健康、生物学、历史、生态学和地理学等。在接下来的分享中，我们有幸邀请到主编Young Kwon博士来谈谈这本期刊。
图片来源：Andra Ion on Unsplash
该期刊的有哪些特别之处？
这本杂志不仅限于生物学、技术和工业工程方面的研究，它旨在寻求一个更全面的范式来解决更广泛的问题：那就是未来，尤其是在后工业化时代，食品将在我们的社会中扮演什么角色？我们认为，从人类行为和幸福感、种族、传统、环境和文化传承等更广阔的角度来看待食物，与扩展当今食品研究的其他方法一样重要。我们希望有越来越多的食品科学家和国家能够意识到食物的重要性，而Journal of Ethnic Foods正是从跨学科的角度来分析食品的重要性。
Journal of Ethnic Foods发表的文章以地理多样性和观点的包容万象为特征。那么这本杂志究竟包括哪些主题和内容?
在全球化时代，强调文化背景和文化遗产的多样性是非常重要的。这就是为什么Journal of Ethnic Foods迄今为止发表了许多不同国家和民族食品的相关文章，当然也包括了有关各种方法学和实验方式的论文。
The Journal of Ethnic Foods provides comprehensive coverage about people’s consumption of food and aims to illuminate the benefits of traditional understanding and knowledge of foods developed over a long time.
Food and eating are studied by several disciplines because food has always been more than just nutrients. Food studies have provided better insights into important societal processes involving economics, health, politics, history, and the environment. The journal emphasises research that explores food, gastronomy and eating behaviours that are related to particular geographical contexts and ethnicities. The uniqueness, variety and creativity of food traditions and cultures, as well as the complex interplay of societal and environmental factors can be fully understood by considering perspectives on ethnography, cultural anthropology, population health and well-being, biology, history, ecology and geography. Articles in scope with the journal should cover these areas. The journal welcomes review articles in all those fields, especially those highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of the study of ethnic food.
The journal covers foods from different geographic areas across continents, ultimately focusing on topics that contribute to health and quality of life.
