Perhaps they are keeping the cure for Brin and Page, slowly transforming the billionaires into mole rats or producing a special anti-aging pill made from money.
But there is a shortcut: Chocolate Mayordomo's dense dark red and black moles made from chilies, nuts, cinnamon, chocolate, onions and raisins.
Mexican mole clouds made from chocolate and a range of spices have been delicious, while cloud cocktails have made interesting evenings that much more interesting.
In fact, while the chef does enhance some dishes with non-Mexican spices like fenugreek, he maintained that his moles are made from traditional Mexican recipes.
Oaxaca, which is in the narrow part of southern Mexico that bends east toward Central America, is sometimes known as "the land of the seven moles" — a mole being a thick sauce made from as many as thirty ingredients, in a process so laborious that it puts most complicated Continental dishes into the category of Pop-Tart preparation by comparison.
While most pedestrian Madeira is made from a utilitarian grape, the tinta negra mole, the best blends and vintages are created from one of seven noble grapes.
But other than a pair of funnily repellent small slippers made from the furry bodies of two real moles by Miriam van der Lubbe, little in the show seriously challenges the usual relations between hedonistic consumers and eager-to-please producers.
So far, the Floreses have been able to pay the costs of their term as mayordomos from their earnings at a stall in an open-air market, where they sell mole and nopales, a vegetable dish made from cactus leaves.
The nominal appeal of wagyu beef ($70/$85) was overwhelmed by an otherwise savory combination of mole, cobia, smoked bean and beef katsuobushi, made from fermented, smoked and dried tuna.
There is a traditional chicken breast in mole poblano, and perfectly recognizable chilaquiles, the homey casserole made from leftover tortilla strips and, in this case, filled out with chicken, Manchego cheese, pinto beans and serrano and chipotle peppers.
