The story of Mole Poblano Asuncion Corp started with the migration of Damiana Juana Bravo to the United States in the 1970s from Piaxtla, Puebla Mexico. Damiana, like all immigrants, came to New York and started working in clothing factories where she was paid the minimum for her work. When Damiana had difficulty making ends meet, she started making Mole sauce in her home, a recipe she learned from her mother in Mexico, to sell to her friends and fellow factory workers. 

After Damiana became known for her delicious Mole sauce by word of mouth, she started getting requests from businesses to sell them the sauce. Once Damiana started to sell enough Mole to quit her factory job, she decided to name her product in honor of her hometown (Piaxtla’s) Patron Saint, LA ASUNCION or Our Lady of the Assumption. 

When Damiana realized that with selling more Mole came more work, she started working with her son Angel Bello who worked on the distribution of the product. When her son died, she recruited her two daughters Candida Fuentes Bravo and Cristina Mora Bravo to work with her in the kitchen and her granddaughters Sally and Canny Rojas to distribute, register her business, deal with customers and buy the ingredients on a larger scale. As the business got bigger, she also recruited her grandsons Jesus and Franco Hernandez to cook the large amounts of Mole paste that is now made 6 days a week.

Although Damiana, nearly 85 years old now, is no longer working in the business, she is still involved in tasting the Mole sauce and making sure her daughters and grandchildren are still using the same recipe she started with 40 years ago in her kitchen.