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I would recommend Milk Street. I believe they similarly test their recipes, but it seems like they have a more global feel and there is a lot of variety in recipes, while remaining easy and accessible to the home cook. I've discovered so many favorite recipes from cuisines unfamiliar to me - the Brazilian fish stew is in our rotation, so delicious, easy to make, and healthy. 

I am as likely to read a cookbook for the places it takes me as for the recipes and I tend to cook from the sorts of books that have rather freeform recipes (just how big much is "1/2 of a medium zucchini?  It's how much I feel like adding).  So I am going to provide you with a link to the first Piglet.  Piglet was a cookbook tournament on the Food52 website, sadly discontinued after 2019.  Set up like a sports tournament, each pairing is reviewed by a different person.  Some reviews aren't very good, but many are great, with reviewers talking about what they cooked, how appoachable the recipes were, whether they worked.

I found the reviews were more likely to add to my list of books, so perhaps it will provide you with some choices for the library

Zephy

I like Ina but don't make many of her recipes as they seem more geared to entertaining in  quantity and cost of ingredients.  If you like the methodical approach of CC and ATK, maybe Tyler Florence - he did a test kitchen type book. Ruhlman's Twenty is another good book in that vein.   Any of the early Martha Stewart books are very reliable and precise as well.    Some of my personal favorites (but probably not really the ATK/CC  style of food writing):  All of  Diana Henry's catalog but if you got just one A Bird in the Hand;  Stirring Slowly by Georgina Hayden; most of Nigella Lawson's books;  My Paris Kitchen by David Leibovitz; 

I agree with many of the rec's above, especially Smitten Kitchen - not just her books but her blog, which has a million recipes. (EYB, you can correct me on the count)

If you watch Ming Tsai, he has a great website as well, but his Simply Ming: One Pot Meals is wonderful, low key and easier than Blue Ginger (which I had the pleasure of eating at before it closed). 

Two of my go-to cookbooks, evidenced by stains on the pages, are Patricia Well's Trattoria and Bistro Cooking. 

Another website that is fabulous, if you like baking, is the King Arthur Baking site. They have a ton of recipes, advice, and honest reviews. I have one of their books but I get more recipes off their website. And I have been known to reach out to the Baker's Hotline via chat and they are super!

And my next-to-last final comment -- I almost always check out a cookbook out of the library to see if I want to buy it. If there are only 5 or 10 recipes I think I want to make, I bookmark the book as "Library", and know I have to plan ahead to get it. Libraries are the best, and I am fortunate that mine has a well stocked section. 

And the best cream of tomato soup I've found is in Barbara Kafka's Soup: A Way of Life. :-) 

Happy cooking!

We have indexed all the recipes on the Smitten Kitchen blog and there are 1,337.

Problem with that is for UK based EYBers FoodNetwork forces us to foodnetwork.co.uk where only highly selective bunch of recipes (not only Ina's but everyone's) are available. The video popup opens but the uk version of their site does not have the videos.

This forced redirect started when the data privacy/anti-tracking legisaltion GDPR came into effect. Make of that what you will.