INFORMS Open Forum

What's the one food that takes you back to your childhood? My aunt made a pasta casserole with a rather unfortunate name - gunk. I still make it, and every time I do, I think of spending fun weekends at her house.

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Jill Capello
Membership Associate
INFORMS
Catonsville MD
jcapello@informs.org
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Beef stew.  My mother made it, and I always loved it.  And still today, even though I am not into cooking, I can buy Irish Stew at Costco, or Dinty Moore canned beef stew and get the same good feelings.   If I'm stressed, a bowl of it will take away the blues.  I won't give it credit for solving problems, though!

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Bruce Hartman
Professor
University of St. Francis
Tucson, AZ United States
bruce@ahartman.net
website:http://drbrucehartman.net/brucewebsite/
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Cinnamon buns.  Pure and unadulterated goodness

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Keith Willoughby
Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon SK
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Cookies. 100%. I could eat a whole packet of Oreos, no problem. 

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Alberto Aparicio
Data Analyst
Charitable Adult Rides & Services, Inc.
San Diego
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Pizza is a food that takes me back. "Pie night" on Saturday night at the Nanuet Restaurant was a gathering of friends and family

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Ken Fordyce
director analytics without borders
Arkieva
Wilmington DE
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My go-to comfort food is chicken pot pie. I had one every holiday season at the now-defunct, Marshall Fields in Chicago.

My grandma made them from scratch and I loved them.

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Andrew Acosta
Data Scientist
Milesius Capital Resources LLC
Chicago IL
andrew@acm.org
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My pick is Chocapic (a.k.a. KokoKrunch). When it was Saturday or Sunday, my parents gave me a big bowl of this with some milk as breakfast; I watched Kamen Rider (a Japanese superhero TV series for teens) while eating.  This is also my way to tell the day of week w/o looking at a calendar. Yeah, Chocapic = Weekend!

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Vincent Tsz Fai Chow
Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Email: tsz-fai.chow@polyu.edu.hk
https://tfvchow.github.io
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I make a shrimp and spicy cajun cheese grits that is great at any time, but especially during cold weather.

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Christopher Lacke
Associate Professor
Rowan University
Pitman NJ
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