Smoke on the WaterfrontA cultural icon of Lake Superior cuisine shares its story, recipes, and techniques A port city where shipping, the fur trade, hunting, and fishingand infamously long, cold wintershave made the preserving and preparing of meat a singular art, Duluth, Minnesota, was uniquely well suited for the Northern Waters Smokehaus when Eric Goerdt launched it in 1998. Fresh off a stint in Sitka, Alaska, where hed learned a method of smoking fish called kippering,