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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It was observed in more than one occasion, by Granny Weatherwax, that Nanny Ogg has impressive social skills. People go to Granny Weatherwax for help when they have no choice, but they go to Nanny for advice all the time.

When she's drunk she has a tendency to sing very "special" songs, the most popular being "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All" or simply "The Hedgehog Song" (never really unveiled by the author beyond a few lines, but many readers have written their own versions [1]). 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. As described in Maskerade, people, after knowing her for fifteen minutes, feel like they have known her all of their lives.Sometimes you had to trust to experience and intuition and general awareness and take a running jump. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn’t, the reason being that the words got in the way. On the other hand, King Verence had long ago given up any idea of stopping a witch doing something she wanted to do, so merely required Nanny Ogg to keep her still somewhere it wasn’t obvious.

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". In effect Nanny and Granny make a perfect team with Granny doing what needs to be done and Nanny bandaging the wounded. The first of these children's books, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. Nanny Ogg's bath night, as described in the novel Lords and Ladies, is an event feared by the entire population of Lancre, chiefly because she sings any and all of the above songs, accompanied by banjo, whilst bathing, and the tin bath amplifies her already overpowering vocal presence such that the audience is not so much "captive" as "hunted down".A wizard she’d consulted had explained it was on account of her having a metabolism, which at least allowed her to feel vaguely superior to Nanny Ogg, who she suspected had never even seen one. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 55 million copies (give or take a few million) and have been translated into 36 languages.

Nanny Ogg , one of Discworld's most famous witches, is passing on some of her huge collection of tasty and above all interesting recipes .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). 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. She has fifteen living children, innumerable grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and she likes to have all of her family around her in case of an emergency, such as she needs a cup of tea (which she takes with three lumps of sugar) or the floor washed. 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.