My grandmother’s passport listed her height at four feet, eleven and a half inches. The extra half inch was generous. By most measures, my little Greek yiayia was just that — little; an underdog.
Liberty Paterakis Tsakalos emigrated to Baltimore with her family at age eight in 1928, exchanging a life on the Greek island of Chios for the rowhouses of Highlandtown.
A member of Patterson Park High School’s first graduating class, she helped found H&S Bakery in 1943 shoulder-to-shoulder with…
