Mole is a versatile sauce from Mexico that often balances sweet, spicy, and savory. These meal ideas will help you use it to ...

Beyond the festivities, Mexican cuisine is steeped in history. Discover the sacred rituals behind three traditional Mexican ...

Over the course of the next few months, I’m counting down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or ...

The aroma of toasted almonds and sesame seeds, chilies and spices emerges from this small Brooklyn store where about 1,600 pounds of mole poblano is made every day. Three generations of Mexican women ...

Rich and intense, chocolaty and spicy at the same time, mole poblano is Mexico’s national dish. In Southern California, as in Mexico, there are as many variations of mole as there are cooks. This ...

Cosi’s bread looks like an alligator, or maybe tree bark. Those of us who fervidly celebrate the joys of immigrant cooking and its eventual assimilation into the standard American diet―think tortilla ...

Mole isn’t just a sauce—it’s centuries of Mexican history in a single bite. From Oaxaca’s seven celebrated varieties to Puebla’s iconic mole poblano, each recipe blends indigenous and colonial flavors ...