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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You’d think, on average, that some of these lost fountains of youth, tree of life and cities of gold would be really close, but they never are. Since recipes are generally well-guarded and kept top secret, Nanny resorted to less conventional methods, saying that "it's amazing what you can do with a little charm and a lot of blackmail. Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received four honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warwick, Portsmouth, Bath, and Bristol. that’s foreign for cat’s water, you know, but that’s only their way, I know it ain’t real cat’s water. She shares this home with Greebo, a tomcat of evil aroma and astonishing viciousness, whom she can see only as a fuzzy harmless kitten.

I love the recipes and the whole book is a great fun read, i think that every kitchen should have a copy. It could perhaps be likened to the Kama Sutra in terms of content, through perhaps being of Nanny's authorship, a trifle more vulgar and also perhaps even more explicit, and not unnaturally perhaps most of all very descriptive. In his short story " The Sea and Little Fishes" Nanny Ogg also identifies herself, and the Ogg family as a whole, as having immense natural magical talent, but is less willing to work it as hard as Weatherwaxes do. When she is drunk or bathing, Nanny sings bawdy songs such as "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All" or "The Hedgehog Song" Only a few lines appear in the Discworld books, but many readers have written their versions. 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).Discworld illustrator Paul Kidby expressed a similar view of the character, writing "I like to think we all know someone like Nanny Ogg, a person who enjoys a drink and has led a happy and full life. Within the Discworld universe, Nanny has written several books: The Joye of Snacks (a cookbook of aphrodisiac recipes, the publication of which plays a role in the plot of Maskerade) Mother Ogg's Tales For Tiny Folk and Nanny Ogg's Cookbook. In fact, Nanny Ogg had done a great deal of everything, and was commonly held to be so broadminded that you could pull her mind out through her ears and tie a hat on it.

She has as well innumerable grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but that's incidental; what makes her the Mother is her mentality.

Nanny lives her life exactly as she wishes, and her daughters-in-law are those who make that possible.

Nanny Ogg is very funny and has a tremendous laugh that, as Terry Pratchett put it, "could even have embarrassed the little, wooden man". Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike unless otherwise noted.

Terry's latest book, Nation, a non-Discworld standalone YA novel was published in October of 2008 and was an instant New York Times and London Times bestseller. This isn't an in depth look at the characters and world-building behind the Discworld like the almanacs, or the Science of Discworld series, but it is a fun ditty with one of its most beloved inhabitants.

In Pewsey's case, she felt that no one should be allowed to wander around in just a vest even if they were four years old. she was definitely feeling several twinkles short of a glitter and suffering a slight homesick-tinged dip in her usual sunny nature.

They say that 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. Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods.