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SAN DIEGO Jeffrey Lamont Brown loves living and working in San Diego’s East Village neighborhood, but one of his biggest frustrations over the years was that it had no bakery where he could buy a loaf of bread, fresh out of the oven. Then came the coronavirus pandemic, which dried up all the commercial advertising business at Brown’s company, Tallgrass Pictures. So with an empty 3,200-square-foot studio and not much in the way of income, he decided to turn his bread-baking hobby into a business. In June, he launched Izola Bakery, a small-batch artisan bakery that has been drawing crowds this month not just for its sourdough loaves and croissants, but for how they’re delivered. ....
Jeffrey Lamont Brown loves living and working in East Village, but one of his biggest frustrations with the neighborhood over the years was that it had no bakery where he could buy a loaf of bread, fresh out of the oven. Then came the pandemic, which dried up all the commercial advertising business at Brown’s company, Tallgrass Pictures. So with an empty 3,200-square-foot studio and not much in the way of income, he decided to turn his bread-baking hobby into a business. In June, he launched Izola Bakery, a small-batch artisan bakery that has been drawing crowds this month not just for its sourdough loaves and croissants, but for how they’re delivered. ....