The Foodie Kitchen
Savannah Ryan — Seed Oil Free Cooking Expert and MAHA Author
22 Published Books · 47+ Blog Posts and Guides · The Complete Seed Oil Free Cooking Library
My name is Savannah Ryan. I am a cookbook author, food writer and the founder of The Foodie Kitchen — a blog and cookbook series dedicated to seed oil free cooking, MAHA nutrition and ancestral fat traditions from every food culture on earth.
I have been cooking without seed oils since I first understood what they were and what they do to the body. That understanding changed everything about how I cook, what I buy, and how I think about food. It eventually produced 22 published books, hundreds of recipes, and this blog — which exists to make seed oil free cooking accessible, practical and delicious for anyone who wants to eat real food.
This page is the complete record of that work — every book, every guide, every recipe collection — in one place.
Why I Cook Without Seed Oils
Seed oils — canola, vegetable, sunflower, soybean, corn, cottonseed, safflower and rice bran oil — are the most chemically unstable cooking fats in widespread use. They are extracted from industrial crops using hexane solvents, refined at high temperatures, bleached, and deodorised before they reach a bottle. The polyunsaturated fats they contain oxidise when heated, producing aldehydes and other toxic compounds that have been linked in peer-reviewed research to inflammation, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disruption.
The populations with the best health outcomes in recorded nutritional history — the populations studied by Weston A. Price in the 1930s, the populations of traditional India, West Africa, the Pacific Islands and the Mediterranean — cooked in butter, ghee, tallow, lard, coconut oil and olive oil. These are the fats that human bodies evolved alongside. These are the fats I cook with. And these are the fats that every book in the Savor series and every recipe on this blog is built around.
This is not a trend. It is not a diet. It is a return to the way human beings have cooked for thousands of years — and the food is better for it in every possible way.
The Savor Series — 14 Seed Oil Free Global Cookbooks
The Savor series is a collection of 14 cookbooks covering seed oil free cooking across every major global cuisine. Every recipe in every book uses butter, ghee, tallow, lard, coconut oil or olive oil exclusively. Not one drop of canola, vegetable or seed oil appears anywhere in the series.
30+ authentic African recipes in palm oil, ghee and olive oil. West, East, North and Southern Africa.
30+ authentic Hawaiian recipes in coconut oil, tallow and lard. The only completely seed oil free Hawaiian cookbook.
30+ Indian recipes cooked exclusively in ghee and coconut oil. 5,000 years of ancestral fat cooking.
30+ Mediterranean recipes in extra virgin olive oil, butter and ghee. Greece, Italy, Spain, Lebanon and Turkey.
30+ Asian recipes in lard, ghee and coconut oil. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese and Indian.
30+ global recipes from six continents, each cooked in the traditional fat of its region.
30+ exotic ingredient recipes — jackfruit, plantains, dragon fruit, taro — all cooked in ancestral fats.
30+ cookie recipes baked exclusively in real grass-fed butter. Zero seed oils, zero margarine.
30+ global coffee recipes from 15+ coffee cultures. Zero seed oil creamers throughout.
30+ recipes built around global spice blends from 20+ cuisines, each bloomed in ancestral fat.
30+ seed oil free dinners all ready in 30 minutes or less. Fast real food for busy MAHA families.
30+ vegan recipes in coconut oil and olive oil. The only completely seed oil free vegan cookbook.
30+ global rice recipes — Jollof, biryani, fried rice, risotto, pilaf — all cooked in ancestral fats.
30+ seed oil free chicken recipes from global cuisines. Every technique, every cuisine, real fat only.
Browse the Full Savor Series on Amazon →
The MAHA Kitchen Garden Series — 9 Grow Your Own Books
Real food starts before the kitchen. The MAHA Kitchen Garden Series is a collection of 9 books covering home growing for the seed oil free kitchen — from garlic and ginger to mushrooms, potatoes and strawberries. Every book is written for complete beginners with small spaces.
Plant in fall · harvest in summer
7 days · no garden needed
Grow Your Own Ginger & Turmeric
Anti-inflammatory · containers or ground
Logs · buckets · year-round harvest
30 days · cut and come again
Bags · containers · the ground
Bags · patios · balconies
Container trees · fruit in 3–4 years
Containers · raised beds · the ground
Free Guides and Recipes on The Foodie Kitchen Blog
Every guide below is free, permanently available, and written from direct experience cooking seed oil free across every major global cuisine. These are not AI summaries of other people's research — they are practical guides built from real cooking, real growing, and real understanding of what ancestral fat cooking looks like in a modern kitchen.
Seed Oil Free Foundations:
What Are Seed Oils and Why Are They Bad · What Is the MAHA Diet · Complete Guide to Ancestral Cooking Fats · How to Detox From Seed Oils
Global Cuisine Guides:
African Spices Guide · West African Cooking Fats · Asian Cooking Fats · Traditional Hawaiian Cooking Fats · What Is Ghee and How Do You Use It
Featured Recipes:
Nigerian Jollof Rice in Ghee · Chinese Pork Stir Fry in Lard · Greek Lamb Kleftiko in Olive Oil · MAHA Butter Coffee · Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies · Peruvian Lomo Saltado in Tallow
Grow Your Own Guides:
How to Grow Garlic at Home · How to Grow Microgreens at Home · How to Grow Ginger and Turmeric · How to Grow Mushrooms at Home · How to Grow Strawberries at Home
Find Savannah Ryan
The Foodie Kitchen publishes new seed oil free recipes, growing guides and MAHA content regularly across the blog and social media. Every recipe uses only ancestral fats. Every guide is written from direct experience. Every book is independently published and available on Amazon.
Blog: www.thefoodiekitchen.net
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Email: foodiekitchen@proton.me
22 Books. One Mission.
Every book in the Savor series and the MAHA Kitchen Garden Series is available on Amazon. Zero seed oils throughout. Real food, real fat, real flavour.
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