Osteria 16
dal. 2014
Easy Pasta
Emil Alsbo
Morten Kaltoft
Emil Alsbo
Morten Kaltoft
For weeknight cooks who want
the restaurant's hand at home.
the restaurant's hand at home.
About the book / Easy Pasta — O16 No. 03
Why this book exists
A book for the night you cook in fifteen minutes.
The first two books are for the curious cook on a quiet Sunday. This one is for Tuesday at seven. After work. With one pan, half a packet of pasta, and whatever is in the fridge that has not given up yet.
It came out of the staff meal. The pasta the kitchen eats between services — fast, honest, restaurant-trained but stripped to the bone. We wrote it down for the home cook who wants the same hand on a weeknight, without the weight of a project.
80
Recipes
288
Pages
07
Chapters
The book as object
Open spread: one-pan pasta dish. Floured board, tongs in frame, a single garlic clove off to the side. Daylight from one window.
Spread / one pan
Open spread: pantry pasta — anchovies, garlic, oil, breadcrumbs. Glass jars open, no garnish. Twelve-minute weeknight dish.
Pantry / 12 minutes
Open spread: late-summer vegetable pasta. Tomato juice on the chopping board, basil bruised by hand, no plate yet.
Garden / late summer
Easy Pasta held against a green tiled wall. 17 × 22 cm paperback, slightly dog-eared at the corner. One hand only.
In the hand / 17 × 22 cm
Back cover, flat-lay. Green cardstock, blind-debossed O16 mark, ISBN block bottom-right. No props, north light.
Back cover / blind deboss
Stack of Easy Pasta in a small indie bookshop window. Daylight, a bicycle reflected in the glass, no styling.
First printing / 2028
World
From Copenhagen, Made in Italy, Read worldwide.
Kinfolk Magazine / International feature
“A small Italian room on Haderslevgade that has quietly become a centre of gravity for the city's food culture.”
Kinfolk Magazine
Dedicated feature · USA / international
Stocked in
Argentina (soon)
Australia (soon)
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Germany
France
Japan
Norway
UK
Sweden
USA
and more…
Distributed
Worldwide
The authors
Authors
Founded together. Still in it together.
Specs & terms
Specs & terms
What you need to know.
Minimum order
5 copies
Wholesale price
195 DKK per copy
Suggested retail
349 DKK
Delivery
3 to 5 business days from order
Payment
30 days net / EAN & CVR
Returns
Full returns within 60 days on unsold copies
Exclusivity
One store per district in greater Copenhagen. Negotiated individually elsewhere.
Six notes for the buyer.
Neighbors
Sits well beside Apartamento, Phaidon, MACK, Nero. Holds the shelf company your selection has already built.
Distribution
A few selected stores per city. No mass distribution. No chain retailers.
Customer tenure
Not an impulse title. Moves through conversation and recommendation, which is what your store lives on.
The material
Print, paper, cover and accompanying material at the level of your other titles. No dump bin. No review sleeve.
The universe
An entry point to a wider body of work. The restaurant, the vineyard, coming editions. Something the customer discovers over time.
The launch
No campaign, no stunt. The book lands and is given room to find its readers. You decide the stack height and how long it stays.
Series
Green is the daily one.
If Easy Pasta is your first one — No. 01 (yellow) is where the project begins, and No. 02 (red) is the second pass. Together they are the project. Stores in the selection receive the first offer at every release.