Justin Vogt

Justin Vogt is a freelance journalist living in New Orleans. More

Justin Vogt is a freelance journalist living in New Orleans. More of his work can be found at his Web site.

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An Asian Carp Invasion

An Asian Carp Invasion

This non-native menace has overrun the Mississippi, could devastate the Great Lakes, and likes to fling itself at boaters. So eat it—before it breaks your nose. More »

Gumbo: The Mysterious History

Gumbo: The Mysterious History

The legendary rice-based dish has a controversial past and a vibrant future in New Orleans and its surroundings. More »

Recipe: Poppy Tooker's Seafood Gumbo

Poppy Tooker is a well-regarded New Orleans cooking instructor and slow-food advocate. Her gumbo credentials were burnished last year when she appeared on Throwdown with Bobby Flay and roundly defeated the cocky celebrity chef in a gumbo cook-off. More »

Recipe: Poppy Tooker's "Diaspora Gumbo"

Along with New Orleans essentials--red beans and rice and jambalaya--Diaspora Gumbo was designed as a formula wherein you'd "pick your diaspora by choosing from the following foods, depending on personal preference and availability to obtain ingredients in your evacuation site." More »

New Orleans Celebrates a Sandwich

New Orleans Celebrates a Sandwich

The Po-Boy Preservation Festival happened at the site of a violent skirmish in the days after Katrina. SLIDE SHOW  I More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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