October 8, 2013 — Matt Baumann took a career leap from tax lawyer to fish smoker. Last December he and his brother, Ben, visited their parents in Michigan, and tested a new smoker with salmon and trout.
“We couldn’t believe how good it turned out,” says Baumann. On the long car ride back to Boston, Baumann devised a plan to start a wholesale fish smoking venture.“I always wanted to run my own business,” he says.
The budding entrepreneur overhauled a barn in Sudbury and launched Matt’s The Amazing Smokehouse, offering salmon fillets (4 ounces for $9) and smoked bluefish dip (8 ounces for $9).
Baumann brines wild Alaskan coho and sustainably harvested Canadian salmon, and smokes slabs with cedar and hickory woods.