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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She thoroughly approved of the prohibition, since this gave her an unchallenged market for her own product, known wherever men fell backwards into a ditch as ‘suicider'. Granny comes across as judgemental, whereas Nanny has a mind so broad she could tie it under her chin. The recipes section is prefaced by Nanny Ogg, with a short article headed "Nanny Ogg's Philosophy of Cookery", stating the importance of good common cookery in the modern day and introducing the book as one that focuses mainly on Lancre and Sto Plains cuisine. Unlike Granny Weatherwax, and the stereotype of witches in general, Nanny Ogg does not live in an isolated cottage but in a well-looked-after townhouse in the capital of Lancre with her eldest and youngest sons living to either side. Nanny Ogg found herself embarrassed even to think about this, and this was unusual because embarrassment normally came as naturally to Nanny as altruism comes to a cat.

Some of Terry's accolades include: The Carnegie Medal, Locus Awards, the Mythopoetic Award, ALA Notable Books for Children, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Book Sense 76 Pick, Prometheus Award and the British Fantasy Award. The first two were withdrawn following the publisher realising what they were really about; the third survived with heavy editing. there was probably no combination of vowels that could do justice to the cry Nanny Ogg made on seeing a young baby. There had been plenty of singers whose high notes could smash a glass, but Nanny’s high C could clean it. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal.

Nanny Ogg quite liked cooking, provided there were other people around to do things like chop up the vegetables and wash the dishes afterwards. However, the only people who appear truly to suffer are her daughters-in-law, of whom she has dozens and rules over with a tyrannical authority. Nowadays, Nanny's daughters-in-law come in to do her household chores; she bosses them rather nastily, and the trait is considered to be the only unpleasant thing about Nanny. Her singing voice, when echoed by a half filled bathtub, causes birds to fall from the sky and goat milk to turn into yoghurt while still in the goat.

Nanny has written several books, including The Joye of Snacks, Mother Ogg's Tales For Tiny Folk and Nanny Ogg's Cookbook . While she had numerous sexual partners as an unmarried woman and later as a widow, she claims that she was never unfaithful to any of her husbands while married. Nanny lives her life exactly as she wishes, and her daughters-in-law are those who make that possible. 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.She fills it with knick-knacks such as pink skulls and rude garden gnomes that serve no useful purpose except to highlight her eccentricities. Our Sean read to me in the almanac where there’s all these fearsome wild beasts in foreign parts,’ he whispered.

As described in Maskerade, people, after knowing her for fifteen minutes, feel like they have known her all of their lives.It is also notable that Nanny Ogg once gave Agnes Nitt lessons on how to sing, including how to sing in harmony with herself (using her alter ego, Perdita).

this was a small thing that should have been removed and I believe it’s these small oversights which are a shame! She briefly took on Tiffany Aching as an apprentice after the death of her previous mentor, Miss Treason. In Pratchett's 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 less willing to work hard as do the Weatherwaxes. She has a very cheerful, practical attitude regarding sexuality and frequently offers unsolicited advice and anecdotes.People go to Granny Weatherwax for help when they have no choice, but they go to Nanny for advice all the time. Nanny Ogg appeared on Royal Mail stamps in 2011, and again in 2023 for the fortieth anniversary of Discworld. When you break rules, break ‘em good and hard,’ said Nanny, and grinned a set of gums that were more menacing than teeth. in Irish Gaelic mythology, Tír na nÓg is the Island of the Blessèd (the literal translation of the Gaelic 'Tír na nÓg' is 'Land of the Young'), the Celtic heaven set in the far West, beneath the setting sun. Nanny Ogg's Cookbook is a book of recipes and wisdom of the Discworld character Nanny Ogg by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs and Tina Hannan, and illustrated by Paul Kidby.