America's Test Kitchen, which Produces Cooks Illustrated and Cooks Country – is my single favorite publishing resource.
A perfect balance of technical information & pragmatic recipes for the amateur cook to be very productive in the kitchen with minimal tools & ingredients.
Cook's Illustrated is great, and the food is always excellent, but it always seems to me that it's more work than you strictly need to do to get that quality.
Cook's Country recipes are about 90% as good for about 80% less work, in my opinion.
A perfect balance of technical information & pragmatic recipes for the amateur cook to be very productive in the kitchen with minimal tools & ingredients.