The other day, we had a party to celebrate American Feast. Not only the American Feast blog, but also the imminent opening of the American Feast website. (More on that to come shortly!)

I decided to make a fresh salsa for the occasion. I cut the tomatoes. I chopped the onions and the cilantro and the jalapenos. I squeezed fresh lime juice. I added salt, pepper, sugar. I figured I logged a good 2 hours into that recipe.

American Feast President and CEO, Jeff Deasy, told me that if I valued my time at about $100 per hour, that was some mighty expensive salsa we were going to eat!

Well, I don’t know if it was worth $200 but it did turn out perfect, if I do say so myself! (The secret is letting the chopped tomatoes drain for about an hour before using. I didn’t count that time in preparation.)

But figuring out the pecuniary value of a bowl of salsa goes against the grain of the SLOW MOVEMENT. And it goes without saying that the practitioners of the SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT would be appalled.

But there is room for the concept of time in the slow movement as self-proclaimed “minimalist-in-the-making”, Suzanne Robicheau explains.

It’s about time retro returned – The ChronicalHerald.ca (Halifx)