Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: a beautifully illustrated collection of recipes and reflections on life from one of the most famous witches from Sir Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld series

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As described in Maskerade, people, after knowing her for fifteen minutes, feel like they have known her all of their lives. I love the recipes and the whole book is a great fun read, i think that every kitchen should have a copy.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Enough” wasn’t really a long enough word to describe the numerous little tasks any young woman marrying into the Ogg family found were expected of her. Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm. Nanny Ogg sent a number of cards home to her family, not a single one of which got back before she did. It is said that housework to Nanny is something that happens to other people; Nanny stopped doing housework once her eldest daughter was old enough to hold a duster.

The first two were withdrawn following the publisher realising what they were really about; the third survived with heavy editing. Nanny's grandson, Shane is a sailor and has taught her some 'basic foreign language', mostly made up of mangled words from French and other European languages.

Food as an aphrodisiac was not a concept that had ever caught on in Lancre, apart from Nanny Ogg’s famous Carrot and Oyster Pie. As with the Discworld Wiki, the text of Wikipedia:Wikipedia is available under the Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License. Jason is something of a gentle giant (somewhat like Constable Bluejohn), and very deferring and respectful to his mother and other witches. She named him ‘The Mince of Darkness’ because of his small and twinkling hooves, and added, ‘Not that I don’t like him, stinky as he is. It was the magic of illusions and misdirection and foolery, and that was fine by Nanny Ogg, because you couldn’t be married three times without a little fooling.No amount of charms could persuade a wart to take root on her handsome if slightly equine features, and vast intakes of sugar only served to give her boundless energy. She briefly takes on young Tiffany Aching as an apprentice after the death of Tiffany's previous mentor, Miss Treason. They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, which just goes to show they’re as confused about anatomy as they gen’rally are about everything else, unless they’re talking about instructions on how to stab him, in which case a better way is up and under the ribcage. The first reference to Nanny Ogg's Cookbook appeared in 'Witches Abroad', where the cookbook makes its way to Ankh-Morpork and is subsequently published.

One of her favorite songs is The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All, whose lyrics probably shouldn't be proclaimed so loudly in public places. He is also the leader of the Lancre Morris Men, who treat Morris dancing as something between a contact sport and a martial art. Perhaps the most surprising thing about this book is that these appear to be legitimate recipes (I haven't tried any yet, but even the Dwarfish bread recipe comes without the usual gravel; apparently this is a recipe for the city Dwarf who has gone soft).

Our Sean read to me in the almanac where there’s all these fearsome wild beasts in foreign parts,’ he whispered.

Carrots so you can see in the dark, she’d explain, and oysters so’s you’ve got something to look at. Gytha "Nanny" Ogg is a witch from the Ramtop Mountains, Granny Weatherwax's oldest and perhaps only friend, sometime conscience and reality-check. In The Art of Discworld, [1] Pratchett mentions a fossil species of Mesozoic ginkgo known as Ginkgoites nannyoggiae.

A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller, and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback (Harper Torch, 2006) and trade paperback (Harper Paperbacks, 2006). As commented by the (fictitious) editors of this book in the front of the book in a series of post-it note memoranda Nanny Ogg stole most of the work in this book from other sources such as the old editions of The Discworld Almanack, Wormolds Steerage, Twurps Peerage and several others.