Home›Open Questions›Which Puebla convent, nun or friar first prepared mole poblano?Open QuestionsWhich Puebla convent, nun or friar first prepared mole poblano?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextFood and Drink Atlas. "Which Puebla convent, nun or friar first prepared mole poblano?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-food.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/question-mole-poblano-inventing-convent.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextFood and Drink Atlas. (n.d.). Which Puebla convent, nun or friar first prepared mole poblano?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-food.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/question-mole-poblano-inventing-conventCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{foodanddrinkatlas-which-puebla-convent-nun-or-friar-first, author = {Food and Drink Atlas}, title = {Which Puebla convent, nun or friar first prepared mole poblano?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-food.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/question-mole-poblano-inventing-convent}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionSeveral colonial-era convent-kitchen legends compete for credit, naming different convents, nuns, friars and even different visiting dignitaries (an archbishop in some versions, the viceroy Juan de Palafox y Mendoza in others); food historians hold there is not enough evidence to prefer one account over the others.What would resolve this A contemporary 17th- or 18th-century convent record or eyewitness account naming one specific convent, nun or friar as the dish's inventor, rather than the anecdotal accounts collected long after the fact, would settle which legend, if any, is accurate.OpenCulinary history / colonial Mexican archival researchMole Poblano (Wikipedia)Cross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnMole Poblano, Dishes Well-attested Source Mole Poblano (Wikipedia)tier 3SourcesMole Poblano (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaHistoryView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year