Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Name: Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
ISBN: 9781407034416

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2000176 pagesPenguin Random House

The Discworld's most notorious witch shares her recipes, household wisdom, culinary advice, and completely unreliable understanding of nutrition. Nanny Ogg's Cookbook is a comedy cookbook set in the Discworld universe, including actual recipes alongside fictional food commentary from Nanny Ogg, footnotes from the Discworld Librarians, and illustrations by Paul Kidby. The food is real; the context is entirely Nanny's.

Avg. reading time: 3h 20m
Prose complexity: 2/10

Funny Lighthearted Whimsical Cozy

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...

Stephen Briggs

British writer

Tina Hannan

Tina Hannan is an author known for her contributions to humorous fantasy, including "Nanny Ogg's Cookbook." Her writing often explores the lighter side of magical worlds and their inhabitants.

Paul Kidby

Paul Kidby is the artist behind the cover art for Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men. His distinctive style brings fantasy worlds to life.

G. Ogg

G. Ogg is a popular author known for her practical and often humorous approach to cookery. Her most recognized work, "Nanny Ogg's Cookbook," offers readers a collection of recipes and kitchen wisdom. Ogg's writing often blends culinary instruction with a unique, down-to-earth perspective.

Fantasy Cookbooks

Nanny OggProtagonist

The Lancre witch whose robust appetite, long experience, and complete indifference to conventional standards inform every recipe and aside in the book.