Emeril moment, Choi enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America, perhaps the most prestigious cooking school in the country. He excelled there, then held a string of upscale hotel jobs, including at the Beverly Hilton, before ending up at Rock Sugar, a massive pan-Asian restaurant in West Los Angeles, where he worked until his pal Mark Manguera called him with his idea for a new taco. Six years ago, Manguera, a then-30-year-old restaurant entrepreneur and a friend of Choi’s, was eating late-night Mexican food with his Korean American sister-in-law when it dawned on him that someone should make a taco with Korean barbecue on it. Manguera called up Choi, who had already been experimenting with Korean fusion recipes. The two tinkered a bit in Choi’s home kitchen beforeBooker Prize list
London, August 11
Controversial Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie’s yet to be published tale of a boy who grows up to become an Islamic terrorist has won him a place in the Man Booker Prize long-list for fiction this year.

A worker looks at a huge portrait of late Pope John Paul II
in Cologne, Germany, on Thursday. More than 100,000 people took part in an action to build a mosaic of the Pope picture with portraits of themselves. Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cologne in his native Germany during the World Youth Day from August 16 to 21, which will be his first foreign visit since he was elected in April.
— Reuters

Islamabad, August 11
Pakistan today "successfully" test-fired its "indigenously developed" first-ever ground-launched cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear