This season, Santa’s shopping locally

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It’s sometimes easy to lose sight of the great products we have right here in Southern California.

So this Christmas, why not keep your gift-buying close to home?

Concentrate on shopping locally and you might find parts of the area you’ve never seen before and even meet the producers face to face. And if all of that just seems like too much, almost all of the items in the coming list are also available over the Internet.

The Food staff of the Los Angeles Times put together this list of homegrown favorites to get you started. Among the picks: giving the fun-yet-practical gift of coffee. In particular, Los Angeles-based George Laguerre’s coffee -- mellow and rich, with caramel notes that go really well with milk and a bit of sugar -- it’s just the thing for a sleep-deprived morning of unwrapping gifts.