Alfa-Betty Olsen
Food Wire
Nov 6 2009, 8:08 amYou Won't See This On the Food Network
Comedian Marshall Efron takes on the cooking channel by teaching us to make something no one wants to eat.read more
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Sep 22 2009, 12:45 pmA Culinary Walking Tour of Brooklyn
Eat everything from falafel to schnitzel in a 10-block section of Bay Ridge. SLIDE SHOW Iread moreStories
Sep 22 2009, 6:45 amSLIDE SHOW: A Culinary Walking Tour of Brooklyn
Alfa-Betty Olsen surveys the multicultural food Brooklyn has to offer. read more
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Alfa-Betty Olsen
Alfa-Betty Olsen is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and television writer. After graduating from The State University of Iowa in Iowa City, Olsen returned to New York and worked with Mel Brooks on The Producers and was the casting director of that film. She then worked with Marshall Efron on the landmark PBS series The Great American Dream Machine followed by an Emmy-winning career writing for television with Efron. They have also written many film scripts. Other Olsen-Efron collaborations have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Esquire, National Lampoon and Spy. Their seven published books include several children’s books, most recently Gabby The Shrew (Random House), illustrated by celebrated New Yorker cartoonist, Roz Chast. full bio
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