Paris: Chefs are often wary of soufflés – but an Aussie chef may owe his life to one. On Friday night, the in-house chef at Australia's embassy in Paris had been planning to go out and catch some music – at the Bataclan concert hall. But instead he was ordered to come into the embassy and prepare a meal for the ambassador and guests: roast chicken with salsify and spinach, and a black pepper soufflé. "Had he not been here, he said to me, he would have been there in the theatre and potentially a victim," ambassador Stephen Brady told Fairfax in an exclusive interview, describing the timeline of how the embassy swung into action in response to Friday night's terror...
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