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Most of us have kitchen cupboards stocked with obscure jars or cans of this and that, items that speed preparation of our particular favorite dishes. For me, one constant is a jar of mole paste.

Mexican mole (pronounced MO-lay) can seem intentionally bewildering, but the word actually has a very simple definition. Mole means sauce in the historic Nahuatl language spoken by the Aztecs, which ...