“…I strongly encourage food scientists to take study leave or sabbatical to explore new and emerging areas of research and strengthen their research portfolio. I went to Academia Sinica, Taiwan, in 2004 (Akoh, Chang, Lee, & Shaw, ; Akoh, Lee, & Shaw, ; Akoh, Lee, Liaw, Huang, & Shaw, ) and Technical University of Denmark in 2017 (Hermund, Heung, Thomsen, Akoh, & Jacobsen, ; Jacobsen, Sørensen, Holdt, Akoh, & Hermund, ; Yesiltas, Garcia‐Moreno, Sørensen, Akoh, & Jacobsen, ). There were other 2‐ to 3‐month short stays in several universities in China, Thailand, and Taiwan, and some 1‐ to 3‐week stays in other countries that helped my research program grow.…”