Remember those days in your good, old hometown when your neighbor meant more than just your “hello, how are you” partner?
When mother realized she needed a few tablespoons of vinegar while in the midst of preparing lunch, she would ask, “Go run to Tiya Lily if we can borrow some drops.”
Tiya Lily Perez was our backyard neighbor who not only shared vinegar, a dose of sugar, salt or other condiments during kitchen emergencies.
