Global Cuisine, Australian Style

  • Technical Difficulties

    Apologies to one and all. Due to Technical Difficulties our site went offline in August, but we only became cognisant of that fact just the other day and have been busy working behind the scenes to get back online. The Internet is becoming more and more a weird, and wild place, in which to have…

  • The PieMan is Back!

    Aussie pie connoisseurs rejoice! The PieMan is back! and you can find him in residence in Shanghai. This summer we will be exploring a whole new world of pie fillings, to bring to you the best pies on offer, to all you true pie connoisseurs, in Shanghai. Villa Tempest Pies are bespoke, hand made on…

  • 2019 Year Of The Pig

    We at Villa Tempest would like to wish you, one and all, a very prosperous Year of The Pig.

  • Happy New Year

    To You and Yours, from Us and Ours, we wish you all the very best for the coming Year, 2019. We hope that your goals and dreams, this year, amount to being everything you hope for. Over the coming months we hope to resolve grittiness issues, with our stone flour mills; to successfully make, “On…

  • WELL, WE’VE HAD QUITE THE ROCKY ROAD…

    In the last few years we seem to run foul of attempts to Stop Fake News, Control Anonymous Postings, and other such socially-encouraged, vigilante justice like Scroll-by (drive by) Social Network Assassination. My Facebook Profile has been down since February 2016, LinkedIn, and Xing, in quick succession shortly after that, and more recently my Twitter…

  • The “Humble” Chiko Roll.

    In my ongoing research I keep moving forward, or at least try to. Recently I’ve been reviewing my notes on producing an Egg Batter Dough, going back to basics, and looking at what is a batter and what is a dough. Essentially they fall on either side of a continuum of similar products. Chief differences relate…