"There are millions of cooks who cook by instinct," says Jack Turner, an experienced amateur cook and creator of Coooksmuse
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"There are millions of cooks who cook by instinct," says Jack Turner, an experienced amateur cook and creator of the website. "They improvise, just the way jazz musicians do. Recipes are nothing but a concept for them, like a melody line or string of chords . . . something to be built upon, embellished."

For these improvisers, recipes are a waste of time, Turner says. "You have to wade through a list of ingredients measured to the milligram and then read self-evident instructions such as "in a small bowl. . ."  When you're all done reading you find that you're making scrambled eggs with a little cumin added to make it exotic.

Why not just say "add cumin seed to scrambled eggs." That's what Muse does and it saves a lot of time and makes it possible to scan ten ideas instead of reading one recipe. 

The website has more than 1500 quick recipe sketches organized by finished product, such as pasta sauces, appetizers, casseroles etc. and also organized by primary ingredients.

Sources for the material are a database of family recipes spanning three generations, and ideas gleaned from cookbooks, magazines and newspapers during 50 years in the kitchen.

Turner is the retired founding publisher of Soundings, a boating newspaper with national circulation that is based in Essex, Connecticut.

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