This book offers more than 100 easy recipes for terrific food on a student's budget. Written by a chef who lived away from home on a limited budget while she was a culinary arts student, The Ultimate Student Cookbook enables college and university students to enjoy fresh and healthy food every day. Recognizing the pressures and realities of student life, these more than 100 delicious recipes: Require only 20 essential pieces of kitchen equipment; Use fewer than 20 staples from the cupboard; Call for healthy, inexpensive ingredients available at any grocery store; Include important guidelines on how to store food and observe good food hygiene; Use up leftovers and include various adaptations; Are complemented by step-by-step color photographs that show the preparation and presentation of each dish. Recipes range from pizza, roast chicken and macaroni and cheese to curries, fajitas and risottos. Easy to use, encouraging to readers and packed with delicious ideas, this book will be a godsend to students living away from home -- and to parents with visions of scurvy. - Publisher.