"I'm passionate about home cooking," says Meez founder Jen Moore. "So if someone takes my recipe, that's good for me. I got someone who wouldn't cook dinner to cook at home." Meez Meals, named for "Mise en Place," the array of pre-chopped and prepped ingredients chefs have at their disposal, is trying to make home cooking faster and easier - and possibly inspire some cooks to try new things. Customers order from a weekly menu of delicious dishes, and all the ingredients, portioned and prepped, are delivered to their doorstep. If you're busy, but still love to cook interesting food, Meez Meals is a great service for you - and Chicagoist readers get a discount on their first order. more ›

This week, we seem to have dough on our minds, from fear of flour to cases of cookies. The most basic, but also most essential, among these delectable doughy creations is bread. Now for those lucky few living in the Edgewater, Rogers Park, Andersonville and Uptown neighborhoods, local bakery Flourish is offering a weekly delivery of your favorite fresh baked breads... for FREE. more ›

We were going to complain about our morning commute, but then we saw what happened to ABC 7's Judy Hsu and decided we actually had it pretty good. A pregnant Hsu was driving to the hospital when she actually wound up giving birth in the front seat of her car along the Eisenhower Expressway. Not much else is known but according to ABC 7's Facebook status (no, really), both Hsu and her new son, Alexander James, are doing just fine. more ›

A deliveryman for Ann Sather, Daniel Sarifini, has been charged with using his delivery vehicle to deliver crystal meth. Several of us at Chicagoist are huge fans of the restaurant's famed cinnamon rolls and now we're beginning to wonder why we find them so addicting. [Tribune] more ›