Shepparton Culture Kitchen is a partnership with Multicultural Arts Victoria and Greater Shepparton City Council that centres the diverse voices of local diaspora communities. The initiative aims to build a future in which communities are connected through empowering, healthy and sustainable food cultures.
Shepparton is home to large, culturally diverse communities, who although proud and strong, are disproportionately affected by structural issues creating health inequity.
Shepparton Culture Kitchen has engaged an intergenerational, intercultural group of six local diverse women including Ying Zhou, Dilrukshi Peiris, Muzhgna Qazikhil, Sibel Kaymak, Shaza Alsmail and Rusminiwati Rose. As experts in their own lived experiences, the women have been exploring ways that they can respond creatively to issues of food insecurity through building and diversifying local knowledge around food cultures and healthy eating.
The special lunch celebrated the women who were involved in the 2022 program, with about 15 women and 30 children attending.
Attendees had an opportunity to try a variety of cultural dishes such as chicken biryani, kofte potato with rice, pani puri and much more. There was also story sharing, music and kid-friendly cooking activities such as spice making, filling pani puri, making gado gado and coconut peeling.
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