First Nations

The Powerhouse acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the ancestral homelands upon which our museums are situated. We respect their Elders, past, present and future and recognise their continuous connection to Country.

Powerhouse Food

Powerhouse Food encompasses programs, partnerships and initiatives that support and amplify the food industry and community.

Powerhouse Food sits at the intersection of science, community, industry and culture.

Through live programs, research, collections, festivals and digital initiatives, the Powerhouse Food program explores food across historical and multicultural contexts, with a focus on cultural diversity, First Nations land management, sustainability and innovation.

Anchored in the global food hub of Western Sydney, Powerhouse Food supports local producers, chefs and practitioners, connecting communities and industries through collaboration and exchange to share the complex, diverse and compelling histories and futures of food.

Powerhouse Parramatta

Two figures are cooking at a long silver kitchen island. An audience are watching, sitting in theatre seating.

Vitocco Family Kitchen

Powerhouse Parramatta will feature the Vitocco Family Kitchen, a 200-seat demonstration kitchen that will bring together industry and community alongside Australian and international chefs and producers to engage with the complex science and diverse cultures of food.

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Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program at Powerhouse

Powerhouse is partnering with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation to establish its very own Kitchen Garden Program at Powerhouse Parramatta.

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Projects and Commissions

Siham is wearing a red patterned dress and is rolling out dough on a marble slab with a wooden rolling pin. The dough is being shaped into a large, thin circle. She’s rolling it out in her backyard, emphasising a natural and relaxed cooking environment.

Vitocco Legacy Project

The Vitocco Legacy Project engages with the communities, histories and future possibilities of agriculture, manufacturing, changing land use, cultural diversity and food production across South West Sydney. Through research, collections and programming, the project reflects the stories, innovations and entrepreneurial spirit that continues to shape the region.

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The Locavore (India) Commission

Setting The Table: Stories from India’s Food Cultures is a collaboration between Powerhouse and The Locavore (India). Across six stories and original recipes, The Locavore (India) shares and celebrates the depth, nuance and living traditions of contemporary regional Indian food cultures.

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Culinary Archive Podcast

Culinary Archive Podcast

Series
A close up of melted Neapolitan ice cream with a glace cherry in the centre.

Milk

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 1
Close up of soy glazed eel. There are bits of cooked rice in the top left of the image and sporadically down the left side.

Eel

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 2
Honeycomb and a bee.

Honey

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 3
Shitake Mushrooms in a bag.

Mushrooms

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 4
Goonbag.

Wine

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 5
Seaweed, wasabi packet and soy sauce fish.

Seaweed

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 6
A plate of unchecked oysters with a slice of lemon on a white plate in a fridge.

Oysters

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 1
The middle shelves of an open fridge. On the lower shelf is a plate of oysters, a red can of Resch’s beer, two yellow Bonsoy long-life milk cartons, turned on their side. In front of them is a iced latte, in a clear plastic takeaway cup. On the shelf above are two more iced coffees, both in takeaway cups. To their left a red and green Fountain Tomato Sauce bottle lies on its sides. Slightly behind them and to the right is a carton of Oak Iced Coffee. Sitting on top of that is an almost empty bread bag. In front of the bread bag is a round sponge cake with pink icing and a cherry on top. A large slice has been cut from the right side of the cake.

Grains

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 2
A jar of Vegemite sits on a fridge shelf. Behind it is a six pack of Resch’s beer.

Beer + Vegemite

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 3

Coffee

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 4
The vegetable drawer of a fridge is slightly open. The drawer is full of red and yellow tomatoes.

Tomatoes

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 5
A small grey bowl filled with edamame beans sits on a middle fridge shelf. There is a red Resch’s beer can and a yellow Bonsoy carton behind it.

Soybeans

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 6
Stories

Collection

Australian Culinary Archive

Established by Powerhouse in 2020 and led by Powerhouse Curatorial Advisor Julie Gibbs, the Australian Culinary Archive is a living repository of our food industry: the chefs, producers, vendors, writers, photographers, critics and diners whose hunger for innovation has coalesced over the decades into a vital sphere of cultural production.

The Importance of Mentors: Kylie Kwong

Australian Culinary Archive
Chef in black and an apron, chopping.

The Roving Chef: David Moyle

Australian Culinary Archive
Women selling bread.

Coming Home: O Tama Carey

Australian Culinary Archive
Two men looks down and over a table, in front of a brick wall.

The Camera Eats First: Earl Carter

Australian Culinary Archive
Chef in industrial kitchen, with a slab of meat on the chopping board, kebabs and carrots in front of her.

Finding the Balance: Annie Smithers

Australian Culinary Archive

Grace and Flavour: Karen Martini

Australian Culinary Archive

Another Memory to Create: Neil Perry

Australian Culinary Archive
Stories
A silver gelatin dry plate glass negative in landscape format.
1/5
Glass plate negative, 'Aboriginal fisheries', part of the Tyrrell collection
Object No. 85/1286-725
Two red signs designed by Chen Lu for the Billy Kwong restaurant
2/5
Two signs designed by Chen Lu for the Billy Kwong restaurant
OBJECT NO. 2021/87/3
String bag, single element string looped, with diagonal pattern of parallel rows of a holes made by combining open and tight looping.
3/5
String bag (jerrk) by Rebecca Bowarr Baker, Maningrida
Object No. 96/304/8
Kylie Kwong handwritten menu
4/5
Kylie Kwong handwritten menu
Object No.2021/87/1-1/9
Grindstone and mill
5/5
A flat, oval, reddish, sandstone 'dish' and long rounded grindstone.
Object No. 93/36/1

Paddock and Palm

Inside the world of Powerhouse Food: Producers
Triptych freaturing Al Shami dishes of varying sizes on a table, Al Shami owner and chef Ali Snoubar and falafel.

Clerkenwell Boy’s Western Sydney Food Guide

Powerhouse Food
A smiling vendor who is wearing a black shirt and patterned headscarf holds a large metallic tray above their head in a festive food stall setting.

Yummy Yummy Knafeh

Across the Table

Foodscapes

Powerhouse Food: Producers
Two figures sitting on chairs in conversation.

Kylie Kwong x Gunjan Aylawadi

The Age We're In
[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’.

Sangee’s Kitchen

Across the Table
A bustling outdoor market scene filled with a crowd of people, illuminated by the low-lying sun, and with colourful streamer decorations overhead.

Marjorie Tenchavez

Across the Table
A smiling person stands behind a food stall displaying trays of baked goods in a glass warmer. Drink bottles and condiments are on the counter in front of them.

Taste of Sierra Leone

Across the Table
A vendor in gloves slices a large roasted meat piece on a wooden cutting board, with various kitchen tools and containers in the background.

Sydney Cebu Lechon

Across the Table
Stories

Past Programs

Powerhouse Lane

Powerhouse Lane

Ended 25 Oct 2025Parramatta Lanes
Two figures smiling for the camera.

Powerhouse Food: Little India

Ended 3 Dec 2025Harris Park
Two people standing next to a cow in a field of cows.

Powerhouse Food: Producers 1

Ended 25 Jul 2025Across Western Sydney
Pop art collage with many bright colours and overlapping graphics.

Powerhouse Lane 2024

Ended 26 Oct 2024Parramatta Lanes
Powerhouse Food: Producers 2

Powerhouse Food: Producers 2

Ended 20 Jun 2026Across Western Sydney

Partners

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