I love supporting Taza…we don’t eat much chocolate ourselves, but I send Taza gifts to several families for various holidays. We went to their Dia de los Muertos celebration and loved it. Most mole recipes call for only a few ounces so it would not be that expensive, and the bonus is the cook gets to snack on what is left. There were so many people at their DLM celebration we couldn’t sample or get in to the factory. The Boston Public Market always has several flavors to sample and it’s just fantastic, including seasonal flavors with pumpkin and gingerbread. Also, at BPM you can get made to order churros with their chocolate dipping sauce. I do think the most basic flavor might work best for mole, because it’s a subtle ingredient that melds with all the other complex seed/chiles, and those extra special flavors might get lost, but would be fun to try different variations if only I had the motivation to cook more than one mole every year. I’ve heard their tour is great. They are just at the border of Somerville/Cambridge.
