Flavours

Long, long ago, there was a cuckoo bird who was happily living on a jamun tree in a garden. The cuckoo, just like him, had a very cute-small nest there. In the same garden, there lived a grasshopper in the tall grass.

One fine day, the grasshopper came out of the grass to bathe in the sun. When he was lying under the sun, he saw a few jamun fruits on the river bank. Out of curiosity, the grasshopper tasted the fruit and found it very juicy and tasty.

To know the origin of the tree of the fruit, the grasshopper lifted his face and noticed a small, beautiful bird sitting on the tree. It was the cuckoo who was decorating his nest with random things he got from here and there.

The grasshopper smiled and said, “O dear little bird! Was it you who dropped this sweet fruit? Just stopped by to say that these fruits are very delicious. Can you please throw a few more for me?”, “Why not!” said the cuckoo in a very sweet and friendly voice and threw away some jamuns for the grasshopper.

The grasshopper ate up all the fruits and thanked him. Since then, in a very short period of time, it became a daily routine. Gradually, they started to taste every kind of fruit available in the garden. Eventually, it turned out to be an utter surprise and excitement when they found out about each other. This common thing was they both were food enthusiasts and liked to discuss each and every flavor of every fruit they newly tasted and also about all other tastes they both have experienced in their individual past lives.

One day, when both were enjoying those mouth-watering jamuns, suddenly the cuckoo bird felt a stone-like thing under his tooth. When he spit it out, they both saw that there were four small stones. These stones were actually the rarest of the rarest gemstones found on our planet, the big four, that is diamond, emerald, sapphire, and ruby. This garden was a famous tourist spot of the city, so chances are, maybe some Egyptian tourist left these stones here.

Anyways, the grasshopper quickly snatched all the four stones from the cuckoo and saw each one of them very precisely. He understood the price of these stones in the outer world. He said to the cuckoo, “The prime fact is we both are poor and ambitious in our lives. We should encash this god-sent opportunity to live our dreams to the fullest, and these stones could provide that platform for that.” Cuckoo also wanted all of that, so agreeing with him instantly.

They decide to leave the garden and head towards a five-star hotel to explore the world of flavors, food, and tastes.