Blueprint of a Meal, From In-Box to Table As cooking on the Web moves beyond recipe sites, Cook Taste Eat, a new enterprise from the San Francisco chef Michael Mina that opened Monday, brings back an early model of digital content: a free e-mail that lands in your in-box each morning. That e-mail contains a video and hands-on cooking instruction, like the one above, and is part of a larger plan. How it works: Sunday's e-mail provides a menu and a shopping list for dinner on the following Saturday night, like chorizo-crusted scallops with jalapeño creamed corn, sauteed mustard greens and chorizo vinaigrette. Each day brings video of Mr. Mina cooking part of the meal, alongside his unlikely-but-winsome sidekick, Michelle Branch. Yes, Michelle Branch the singer-songwriter, a friend of Mr. Mina's and an enthusiastic home cook. By the end of the week, in theory, you have gained the skills to whip up the meal on Saturday evening. All the videos and recipes will also be available on the main site, and chefs like Mourad Lahlou and Michael Chiarello have already taped guest episodes. Although it's hard to imagine having the attention span to follow the program rigorously, the service has some strong features that are rare on the Web: crisp, short videos; recipes that are ambitious, not dumbed down; and the gentle, considerable teaching skills of Mr. Mina.