Leave Duluth with more than memories by picking up these food-related souvenirs.

1 Beer aficionados really can't leave the shores of Lake Superior without stopping in at Fitger's Brewhouse and grabbing a few growlers ($14), the 64-ounce jugs that brewmaster Dave Hoops fills with whatever carefully crafted stouts, lagers and ales he and his crew are featuring at the moment, along with their equally swell root beer and cream soda.

2 "We were playing with names, not being serious at all, and I blurted out, 'Peace, Love & Chocolate,'" explained Thomas Ferrian on a chilly morning at his stand at the Duluth Farmers Market. "That's when my wife said, 'That's perfect.'" That's the story behind the name of his lovely handmade chocolates (six for $10), each little beauty brimming with intense flavors ranging from cranberry to an unusual jasmine-ginger combo.

3 If packing a cooler with Eric Goerdt's sublime chorizo, pancetta or brown sugar-cured Lake Superior trout isn't in the cards, take home a piece of his Northern Waters Smokehaus in the form of a modest-size poster ($5). It's a hand-colored linoleum block print by Duluth artist Rick Allen (check out Kenspeckle Letterpress, his studio upstairs), intoning the immortal words of novelist Richard Condon, "Cheese: The Adult Form of Milk."

4 No kitchen can have too many absorbent cotton dish towels, especially if they're imprinted with the clever indigo insignia of the Blue Heron Trading Co. ($8.99), Canal Park's warm and welcoming cookware shop.

5 The Rogotzke name resonates among Duluth food lovers; the family has spent the past 25 summers fishing for king and sockeye salmon in Alaska's Bristol Bay and shipping their catch back to the area. They also tap a sugarbush just outside the city, producing an exquisite high-grade maple syrup (16.9 ounces, $14) under the Simple Gifts label and selling it at Whole Foods Co-op. "This syrup was produced during the week of 4/5/09," read a sign at the store. "To get any fresher, you'd have to carry a maple tree with you."

6 The summer's most fashionable Twin Ports T-shirt isn't emblazoned with a Duluth Huskies logo -- it's the stylish brown crew-neck that reads "Smell the Organic Fair Trade Coffee" ($9.95) from Red Mug Coffeehouse.

7 No sojourn to Duluth is complete without a leisurely browse through Coppola Art Imports. Every inch of Antonino Coppola's lakefront shop is a resting spot for stunning hand-painted ceramics and tableware imported from Italy and Sicily.