Angela Atenco Lopez of Angela’s Cafe in East Boston Died at 76 | Eater Boston

"Run by its founder and chef for decades, this beloved pair of East Boston Mexican restaurants—one in Eagle Hill and a second opened in Orient Heights in 2016—has long been a neighborhood favorite and a regular on local “best of” lists, even appearing on a 2012 episode of Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. The kitchen is best known for a labor-intensive mole poblano prepared in the traditional Puebla manner: a long ingredient list (including almonds, sesame seeds, raisins, cloves, plantains, pasilla, ancho and mulato chiles) whose components are toasted, charred or cooked with fat, ground on a metate into a thick paste, fried with lard, thinned with broth and used to slowly braise turkey for many hours. The founder insisted on cooking slowly and deliberately, tweaking the recipe only as ingredient availability required, a commitment to tradition that helped make the restaurant a touchstone of the community." - Terrence Doyle