Local food -- coffee?

There's a new coffee place in town and we now have one more reason to live close to our home. Kats Koffee, located in the the Sparks Crossing Shopping Center, opened a couple of weeks ago serving great coffees and teas, as well as breakfast, snack, and lunch items. Mark and I have visited a couple of times and liked it so much it is now our coffee shop of choice.




Wait, you say, how can coffee be considered local food? When we started thinking about living a local food life we did some research. Other local food enthusiasts emphasized the importance of determining up front how much you'd be willing to give up to eat local. For me it was easy. Could I live without tropical fruits? Yes. Coffee? Not so much. But when defining "local" Kats Koffee fits in a very important way...community support. Kats Koffee buys their beans from Tim Curry of Fire Roasted Coffee, breakfast-friendly baked goods from Rollin' in the Dough, and the sandwiches from Mr. Pickles, another Sparks owned establishment (and one of my favorite lunch stops). We've been drinking Tim's coffee for well over a year now and love it. We used to pick it up at Tim's shop in Reno but now we can buy our beans in Sparks.

Gotta go! It's a farmers' market Saturday morning and pickling day. But first we're going to get a cup of coffee.