25 Jul Biggest Annual Festival of Mexican Gastronomy in United States is back celebrating 16 years of unique flavor!
Celebrating its 16th anniversary
October 8, 2023 at Grand Park
This delicious event includes a special presentation on the origin of the famous mole, a delicious and fun gastronomic celebration (Mexican states known for their mole), and tastings of the different mole styles for all in attendance.
Everyone is welcome to feast and celebrate on this big gastronomic event, filled with flavor, featuring an array of delicious moles that go from sweet to salty and hot. This year an array of delicious pastries and other dishes will be prepared right along with mole.
The delicious event starts at 10:00 a.m. and lasts until 7:00 p.m., taking place at Grand Park on October 8th, 2023.
Entrance is free and the traditional food is available for purchase.
La Feria de Los Moles’ goal is to showcase this delicious Mexican dish, a tradition recognized by the UNESCO world patrimony. It was created by Pedro Ramos and the Union de Poblanos En El Exterior (UPEXT), an organization recognized by the City of Los Angeles for its support of health issues that affect the Latino community in the city.
HISTORY OF MOLE
Mole is a dish that originated from the collision of indigenous and Spanish cultures in Mexico. Legend tells us that mixing tomato, cocoa, vanilla and other condiments are essential part of making “molli”, the ancient Nahuatl name of salsa. Most of the Mole ingredients come from Mexico and involve an important and ancient utensil, the “metate”, made of stone and used to chop and mix all of these condiments. Thanks to this utensil Mole has an important role in the culinary history of Mexico.
Later on, during the colonial period more ingredients were added to the indigenous “mulli”, ingredients such as cinnamon, clove, pepper and almond. In Puebla this combination was named Mole Poblano, a dish combining culinary elements of indigenous and Spanish ancestry.
Although Puebla is the first state to document the first Mole dish, there is no certain place of origin. The legend tells us that Sister Andrea de la Asuncion, from Santa Rosa Convent in Puebla, invented Mole thanks to a divine wind that dropped all the different condiments to a pot when she was cooking a dish for the sympathy of Viceroy Tomas Antonio de la Cerda y Aragon, Marques de La Laguna.
Oaxaca is another state in Mexico with at least seven varieties of moles, including negro (black), rojo (red), coloradito (colored), mancha manteles (table cloth stained), verde (green), amarillo (yellow) and chichilo.
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