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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I love the recipes and the whole book is a great fun read, i think that every kitchen should have a copy. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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. the book is full of great recipes and will keep you amused all through the book, and Nanny Ogg's commentary on different aspects of ettiquete are brilliant and all the notes from Discworld characters are so funny and they make the book an authentic Discworld book as if published in Ankh-Morpek.

Agnes was, Nanny considered, quite good-looking in an expansive kind of way; she was a fine figure of typical Lancre womanhood. She also has one single tooth left - Nanny eating a pickled onion with gusto is a sight not soon to be forgotten. Nanny Ogg appeared on Royal Mail stamps in 2011, and again in 2023 for the fortieth anniversary of Discworld.

In Lords and Ladies, Nanny Ogg claims her ancestors invented the Oggham language, although she might have been having one over on Casanunda; however, she is able to translate the Oggham above the door to the Elf King's realm as "I've got a great big tonker. It was observed in more than one occasion, by Granny Weatherwax, that Nanny Ogg has impressive social skills. 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'. They are all supplied with sturdy round plastic bases and the cobblestones shown are available separately. Nanny lives her life exactly as she wishes, and her daughters-in-law are those who make that possible.

when I was a young girl, a young man nearly threw himself off the Lancre Bridge because I spurned his advances. She's had 5 husbands and been married to three of them and has fifteen children who survived their early childhood (one was born some ten years after the death of her last husband).Nuttall observes that, while some of the Discworld witch characters progress through these roles, Nanny is associated "purely with the role of the Mother" [3] In addition to being the matriarch of a large family, Nanny also fulfills a Mother role in the community; "she is a talented midwife, and takes a maternal attitude to the majority of people she meets". It’s not staying in the same place that’s the problem,’ said Nanny, ‘it’s not letting your mind wander. It should also be noted that Nanny really likes to eat and drink despite only having one remaining tooth (The sight of Nanny Ogg eating a pickled onion supposedly brings tears to the eyes). Sometimes you had to trust to experience and intuition and general awareness and take a running jump.