{"id":5029,"date":"2021-10-03T22:19:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T22:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2021-10-03T22:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T22:21:24","slug":"the-natural-flavor-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2021\/10\/03\/the-natural-flavor-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The natural flavor of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 4<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

The natural flavor of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moses limped slowly towards his house of cream dollops and cakes,he was sixty one year’s\u00a0 old ,lean individual with a grouchy expression\u00a0 fixed permanently\u00a0 on his face ,it was as if he never could smile, his scanty grey hair flew over his forehead as he tread slowly\u00a0 on the streets of\u00a0 London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was half past eight as he reached the doors of his shop and slowly unlocked it, the glass was decorated\u00a0 with\u00a0 paintings of\u00a0 \u00a0chocolate and cakes everything\u00a0 in his store seemed\u00a0 sweet except the owner, there was a chocolate\u00a0 fountain\u00a0 on the left of the counter and behind the counter were shelves\u00a0 filled with different\u00a0 kinds of chocolates\u00a0 arranged\u00a0 in beautiful\u00a0 packages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A child’s dream world in short.His shop enclosed all kinds and flavors of chocolate, cake and ice cream .The cakes were arranged\u00a0 on a three tier circular\u00a0 table\u00a0 in one corner of the store behind the shelves\u00a0 to the right\u00a0 was a door which led to a bakery where the cakes were baked by professional\u00a0 bakers, moses himself\u00a0 being a Baker in his youth shared his best recipes only to the bakers in his bakery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many felt the reason for his grumpy disposition was his inability to\u00a0 savor the tasty products\u00a0 in his bakery\u00a0 being an ardent sweet connoisseur he missed\u00a0 savouring the delicacies in his store the reason being the receding\u00a0 insulin levels of his pancreas, in his youth it was his habit to relish everything he baked and enjoy a satisfying joy which filled his soul with peace that heavenly\u00a0 feeling is what he really missed in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One frosty morning  a little girl came to his store she looked at him and smiled then said” Do the cakes you sell only look beautiful or do they taste so too?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An angry moses took one of his favourite slices of cake and offered it to the girl ,the girl ate a small piece and left the shop saying that she would pay for that slice with a better cake the next day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moses called her but she slipped away. The next day again she was back with a box of ice cream which she offered  moses, he refused  saying he couldn’t eat sweet she insisted and he tasted a bit he was overwhelmed  beyond words the same soulful joy filled him “what is this?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The girl replied “this is the sweetness of Nature!” Moses didn’t understand, the girl said”this icecream is made on my farm not only this even juices,cakes and chocolate too are made there,would you like to come and see?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moses looked at the girl arrogantly and said ” no I don’t believe you and I won’t come,go away girl don’t spoil my business ” the disappointed girl left\u00a0 but returned the next day with a slice of cake for moses, though tempted he refused to eat it saying\u00a0 it would affect his sugar levels, the girl smiled at him and said” This cake is made with beetroot, it is made with natural colors and flavors, just try it ,it will not harm you .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

” A hesitant\u00a0 Moses ate the slice and relished it, it bought a smile on his face, it was so satisfying, he felt the same soulful joy and looked at the girl and said with tear filled eyes “you have made me relive my youth”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The happy girl said will you come to my farm now?\u00a0 Moses clasped\u00a0 her hands and the next moment they were in a wagon on their way to her farm, en route he came to know that the girl was called\u00a0 Maggie she lived in a farm along with her grandma and mother,\u00a0 her father\u00a0 passed away\u00a0 when she was five and her grandfather use to run a bakery behind the farm and would travel to nearby towns to sell his products at low prices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

unfortunately , he died a year ago and now the farm and bakery were being\u00a0 looked after by Maggie’s grandma and mother but they sold the products only to the local farmers as traveling to town was difficult for both the ladies.The specialty of the cakes and products made here was that they were made only with natural ingredients no artificial sweeteners or color.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they reached the farm Moses introduced himself to Maggie’s\u00a0 mother and grandmother\u00a0 and said” I’ve tasted a few of your products and it’s so hard to believe you make these only with natural ingredients and fruit fibre no sugar ,how is it possible\u00a0 ,and why such pain and effort?” Grandma with tranquil look said”Mr.Moses ,mother’s\u00a0 love is pure and not contaminated ,even Nature’s love is also pure, why should we contaminate that bountiful and pure love with artificiality?\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

let us take what God has given us as it is; and pain it’s not pain it’s the love to provide healthy food to an unhealthy world, the power to cure lies in Nature; this is what my husband use to say and that is what we follow and anything which is pure and made with love is bound\u00a0 to taste good”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moses felt enlightened he went back to his store he looked at all those cakes which he couldn’t eat he chipped off a bit of cake and tasted it\u00a0 he felt a bitter sweetness\u00a0 tingle his senses\u00a0 just then\u00a0 he saw Mr. Gordon\u00a0 his regular customer pass his store\u00a0 he beckoned him\u00a0 “Mr.Gordon won’t you drop in to collect\u00a0 your favorite cupcakes today?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.Gordin smiled back” sorry\u00a0 Mr.Moses I’ve got a bad tooth,too much of sweet, looks like I won’t be able to have anymore for some time” moses waved back and said ” no worries\u00a0 mr.gordon from next week I’ll be selling\u00a0 cupcakes\u00a0 which won’t affect your teeth, just make sure you pick up some” mr gordon looked happy” sure that’s the best thing to hear”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon Moses went back to the farm and signed\u00a0 a\u00a0 contract\u00a0 with Maggie’s mother to provide him with a regular\u00a0 supply\u00a0 of all her confectionery and he himself never missed the satisfying soulful joy of the relishing Natural flavors of Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 4<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>The natural flavor of Life Moses limped slowly towards his house of cream dollops and cakes,he was sixty one year’s\u00a0 old ,lean individual with a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1695,"featured_media":5031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1204,13,572,309,1243,374,1203],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-development","tag-english","tag-english-article","tag-english-short-story","tag-inspirational","tag-moral-story","tag-personality"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5033,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions\/5033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}