The Christmas season is the time for food. Like most people, every Christmas my whole family gets together and eats. It has always been a special event for me over the past nineteen years. It's something I look forward to every year. A key difference between my family and others is our size. Every year around forty people from my family gather at my grandparents' house. My grandparents live in southern Mississippi, and every Christmas, after my family opens presents, we drive there for four hours. With such a plentiful amount of people meeting in one place, you might be wondering what everyone is going to eat. What meal could satisfy forty different people? My grandmother has made Gumbo every Christmas for as long as I've been alive. Gumbo served with Wal-Mart potatoes