Nanny Ogg's Cookbook is a book of recipe

Recipe

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s and wisdom of the Discworld

Discworld

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character Nanny Ogg

Nanny Ogg

Gytha Ogg is a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. She is a witch and member of the Lancre coven.- Personality :The character of Nanny Ogg is based on the Mother stereotype of the Triple Goddess myth...

 by Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...

, Stephen Briggs

Stephen Briggs

Stephen Briggs is a British writer of subsidiary works and merchandise surrounding Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy Discworld. The Streets of Ankh-Morpork, the first Discworld map, was co-designed by Briggs and Pratchett and painted by Stephen Player in 1993...

 and Tina Hannan

Tina Hannan

Tina Hannan is a London-based writer and photographer, noted for the book Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, co-written with fantasy author Terry Pratchett in association with Stephen Briggs and Paul Kidby as a companion to the Discworld series...

, and illustrated by Paul Kidby

Paul Kidby

Paul Kidby is an English artist. He was born in Northolt and is currently living and working in Fordingbridge, New Forest. Many people know him best for his art based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld, which has been included as the sleeve covers since Josh Kirby died in 2001.He drew a lot during...

. The book covers a whole range of subjects including:

• The language of flower
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  s
• The correct way to eat
• The etiquette of seating
• Recipes, some from friends or acquaintances (including Lord Vetinari's
  Havelock Vetinari
  Havelock Vetinari, Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, is the fictional ruler of the city state of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a series of over thirty books describing a parallel universe whose main world has reflections of - even more or less subtle jokes about - our...
  
   famed recipe for bread
  Bread
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   and water)
• Manners at a dwarfish
  Dwarfs (Discworld)
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   banquet
  Banquet
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As commented by the (fictitious) editors of this book in the front of the book in a series of post-it note

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 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. Most (although not all) of the recipes could feasibly be prepared.

Nanny Ogg has also written two other books, the most famous of which, The Joye of Snackes, has been banned and the other book, supposedly of children's stories (Mother Ogg's Tales For Tiny Folk), has been recalled.

True Nature

The first reference to a cookbook written (or perhaps "perpetrated" would be a better word) by Nanny Ogg appeared in Maskerade, in which The Joye of Snackes makes its way to Ankh-Morpork and is subsequently published. The Joye of Snackes is not a cookbook in the traditional sense. It could perhaps be likened to the Kama Sutra

Kama Sutra

The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses...

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.

The "real" book published as Nanny Ogg's Cookbook is ostensibly a sequel to the (fictitious) The Joye of Snackes. It is a much more traditional cookbook, offering recipes for foods mentioned in several of the Discworld sub-series.