Wholly Mole!

Wholly Mole!

Wholly Mole!
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 6 to 8
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	6.12

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		adobo, cloves, cumin, hershey, mood-lifting, pipian, pumpkinseed, rojo, tomatillos, verde, world-renowned, yellow-green, chilies, value, cilantro, poblano
	content words:		Sweetest Place, Central America

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Wholly Mole!
By Brenda B. Covert

¹     Many cultures value chocolate as a sweet treat. It's featured in many favorite dessert recipes. The Swiss are world-renowned for their rich chocolate candy. Hershey, Pennsylvania, is known as "The Sweetest Place on Earth" for its candy heritage! There's no doubt that we love our chocolate.

²     One culture took chocolate to a new level. No longer a dessert item to be savored after a meal, this culture added spices to chocolate and then poured it over their chicken dinners! That culture came from Central America.

³     The Hispanic culture gave us mole sauce. No, not mole [MOHL] as in an underground rodent, but mole [MOH-lay], a dinner sauce featuring the mood-lifting ingredient known as chocolate!

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