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This is amazing, thank you! I will have to look into that book..
I give it as a gift to young adults who are moving out on their own.
I feel like pretty much everyone should have one as a start. Things like Joy of Cooking are more advanced (though still foundational, curiously). ATK takes a training-wheels approach.
The ATK/Cooks Country show has been on since the mid-90's (and feels like it, truly a PBS show from the 90's, haha) and does a great job explaining stuff.
Also Alton Brown's Good Eats is great for showing how and why things work the way they do in the kitchen. Not sure how much of wither is on YouTube, there's some.
I also recommend J Kenji Lopez-Alt's "The Food Lab". It's less of a recipe book and more of a how and why you cook book that happens to contain recipes. It's sort of a mix of ATK and Good Eats.