I love to cook and I love to collect recipes. But I only have a few handfuls of cookbooks, and this is one of my favorites. While he may not include everything, it's Pretty Damn Close. Confident cooks can wing it from many of his recipes, and non-confident cooks can learn to be more so.
Love the index, love the menu planning sections. Love the intro to each chapter telling you how to select/handle/identify some of the ingredients in that chapter. Never heard of quinoa or chayote? This book will help you out.
Love that he's a big proponent of eating well, and eating healthily.