We have a copy of that lying around the house. We primarily use it for cookies and pies, but we consult it all the time.
Mom also picked up four tomes-worth of Cook's Illustrated "Best Recipes" books a while back. Everything we've made from there so far has been very good, from sauteed string beans to Korean fried chicken. Plus the instructions they give are idiot-proof, so anybody with basic knowledge of how knives and stoves work can make anything in there.

