Chocolate In1692 New Spain

Mole covered roast chicken garnished with sesame seeds (the seeds are an African plant), recipe below

Here’s another foodways story from a Wednesday July 16, 1692 diary entry of fourteen year old Mariana Calderón y Oliveira. Iberians in colonial Mexico delighted in American chocolate. Mateo, Mariana’s Iberian born brother in law, drank and ate so much chocolate that her father asked him what doctors in Spain thought about chocolate. Mateo, who argued that Spanish food was better than Mexican, replied, “blessed be the Lord because he put on the earth blessed chocolate, and the doctors say that there is nothing better in the world on which one can get fat, and because fat is pretty, we all eat a lot of chocolate.” Here is one chicken covered mole recipe among many:

Chicken covered mole recipe: http://dontsalt.blogspot.com/2009/04/mole-poblano-sauce.html