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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Nearly 13 years ago, Nana Hammond and her family moved from London to the U.S. After settling in Jacksonville, Hammond wasn’t thrilled with the quality of bread, so she decided to make her own. “The first loaf of bread we bought actually sat on our shelf for two weeks – no mold, it didn’t stale, nothing at all happened to it,” Hammond recalled. Enter Jax Bread Co., a family-owned bakery nestled in a storefront along Baymeadows Road off Philips Highway on the city’s Southside. “Everything that you get from here, from our cookies to our sandwiches, we make all of that in house,” she said. “So, we have a lot of support across all races from Jacksonville.