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La Bemba Case Study

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Nestled in the foothills on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas adjacent to a beautiful river, La Bemba, California is an insignificant town with a population that is under two hundred people. In this small town, there was an automobile repair shop with two bays; the smell of gasoline and grease hang in the air and the owner where Jim Bob Lovejoy, a short, pudgy bearded specimen who dropped out of high school when he was fourteen, can fix anything with a motor. The bakery, down the block and across the street specializes in a Danish pastry that is flaky and buttery and sweet and when a person bites into the warm pastry, it mixes with the fruit filling to create sheer pleasure in one bite. The butcher shop was built by a mysterious man …show more content…

His butcher shop was a small building with one table and a few employees. The butcher shop smelled of raw meat and the scraps were thrown in buckets that were scattered throughout the building. The grocery store was owned by an old lady by the name of Gail Goldberg. The grocery store she ran was called Gail’s Groceries and always had the aroma of fresh …show more content…

Being the son of Don Smith, who was a local farmer that grew and supplied La Bemba with the grains that the bakery used in various types of bread and other goods, Luke was expected to inherit the family farm. He constantly aided his father on the farm and was being shown how to run the place should he ever have to step up. John’s father, Nick Rivera, was the butcher and John grew up being taught all of the way to butcher anything that came through his father’s shop. Anything from a hog to the occasional horse and rabbit all passed through the butcher shop. Leroy’s mother, who maintained the bakery where he was taught how to make bread, doughnuts, various rolls, and biscuits, raised Leroy while schooling him to do all of the things she had known her entire life. Martha Jenkins, Leroy’s adopted mother, was strict in her ways of baking and treated her craft as if it were a divine gift. Consequently, Leroy deeply understood every process that went into making every type food for the town. Not many others could tell if the foods were cooked just right or if the right amounts of each ingredient was in the product, just by tasting

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