Powerhouse Food
Powerhouse Food examines food within the context of history and how its connectedness draws together land, creatures, people, roads, factories, markets and waterways, sustaining us and holding our futures.
‘So, let us step forward with care. Care will determine the readiness we need for the decisions to come, as a meal is prepared, and we will welcome our guests’
Food connects us to Country, to industry, to innovation, to creativity and to each other and our shared histories.
It is a great equaliser: whether for fuel or pleasure, we all eat – yet our relationship to food reflects larger global economic trends, technological advancement and societal inequity.
To consider the future of food cultivation in Australia, we begin by acknowledging Country in practice. We recognise this fertile land was not discovered by early settlers but was the result of successful land management by Aboriginal people who have cared for Country for millennia.
Western Sydney is the food bowl of Sydney and characterised by an abundance of arable land. Over the next century it will play a role in how our future food is conceived, produced and distributed to the world.
![[Alt text] Three smiling people pose behind a stall with jars of beverages and a menu board featuring chrysanthemum iced tea and fried ice cream from ‘Sangee’s Kitchen’.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/wkgts1b4/production/b5c42900f7aa0f5830a157704dbbbfe6408648a7-6336x3564.jpg?fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&w=1920&h=1080&q=82&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&auto=format)
