
Chef, author and teacher Promilla Gupta has been announced as the 2025 Australia Day Ambassador for Wollondilly.
Ms Gupta migrated to Australia with her husband in 1983, living in Whyalla for nearly 20 years before moving to Adelaide in 2002.
Known for her love for cooking to bring people together, Ms Gupta has shared her love of food in a number of ways, from running a restaurant, writing books, teaching cooking and providing nutritious meals for newly arrived migrants and international students.
Her commitment to the multicultural community in Australia has led her to become involved in community work including fundraising in South Australia and volunteering with the Salvation Army to cook for homeless people.

Ms Gupta has written two vegetarian cookbooks and is currently working on a third.
She has conducted classes and cooking shows, published recipes, given radio talks and taught at the University of the Third Age.
She has also created and acted in a movie called Five Spices in Adelaide, a multicultural short film about five women from different ethnic backgrounds who learn to live together in harmony.
Ms Gupta has received a number of awards – including an OAM, a Pride of Australia Award in the Fair Go category (2006); Campbelltown Council’s Citizen of the Year in 2007 (in South Australia), and was a finalist in the Irene Krastev Award on International Women’s Day (also 2007).
“Council and the community would like to welcome Ms Promilla Gupta as our Wollondilly Ambassador for 2025.
“We are honoured to have Ms Gupta here as our Australia Day Ambassador and look forward to showing her our beautiful Shire.”
Wollondilly’s Australia Day celebrations will be held in the Picton Botanic Gardens this coming Sunday, January 26 from 8am to 12 noon.