Informamos del Special Issue “Cooking, Health and Evidence”, call for papers from British Food Journal

Special Issue of the British Food Journal

Call for Papers: Cooking, health and evidence

Special Issue of the British Food Journal

Guest Editors

Professor Martin Caraher
Centre for Food Policy, City University, London
m.caraher@city.ac.uk

Dr Andrea Begley
School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
a.begley@curtin.edu.au

Dr Xavier Allirot
Basque Culinary Center, Spain
xallirot@bculinary.com

Background

Cooking is considered an everyday activity forming part of the temporal patterns of life but is increasingly in the spotlight in relation to its culpability for poor health outcomes. Cooking and food preparation have emerged as popular public health interventions variously designed to address dietary intakes such as poor fruit and vegetable intake and more broadly to reduce obesity, chronic disease and food insecurity.  In contrast the proliferation of cookbooks, television cooking shows, celebrity chefs and technological advanced home cooking equipment would indicate that interest in cooking in austerity times has never been higher.

Research on how people do cooking as part of everyday life activities, evidence of effectiveness in changing dietary behavior and consideration of other impacts across lifecycle groups is lacking. These points strengthen the proposition that more investigation is required as to how cooking is defined, what type of cooking is done, what is required to eat healthy foods and how cooking skill interventions can be best delivered to contribute to healthy outcomes. Investigating cooking requires the use of different theoretical paradigms and approaches.

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