{"id":7091,"date":"2023-11-20T05:47:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2023-11-20T05:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:47:54","slug":"she-introduced-pizza-to-cbc-viewers-in-1957-now-this-90-year-old-is-internet-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/20\/she-introduced-pizza-to-cbc-viewers-in-1957-now-this-90-year-old-is-internet-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"She introduced pizza to CBC viewers in 1957. Now this 90-year-old is internet famous"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the ’50s video gone viral, Kathy Brady tells viewers about an up-and-coming dish known as\u00a0‘pizza pie’<\/h3>
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CBC News –<\/em><\/strong> A B.C. senior has achieved internet fame\u00a0thanks to\u00a0a\u00a0video recorded at CBC’s Vancouver studios\u00a0more than 65\u00a0years ago.<\/p>

Ninety-year-old Kathy Brady says she’s pleasantly surprised that a cooking segment filmed in 1957 for a TV pilot \u2014 in which she tells viewers all about a “popular Italian dish” known as “pizza pie” \u2014 has found a new audience.<\/p>

“Pizza pie is becoming very popular, especially down in the States,” says Brady, dressed in a cardigan, in the clip. <\/p>

“There are some restaurants that even specialize in it. These are called pizzerias. Saturday night as you drive down, you can see cars lined up for miles waiting for their pizza.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>

Brady first became aware of the video’s re-emergence through her daughter-in-law Debbie Butt, who saw the black-and-white video pop up in her social media feed.<\/p>

“I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, that’s my mother-in-law,'” Butt said. <\/p>

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In 1957<\/sup>, Kathy Brady recorded a cooking segment for CBC that introduced viewers to a new dish known as ‘pizza pie.’ More than 65 years later, the clip has gone viral. Brady, now 90, spoke to BC Today host Michelle Eliot about her newfound internet fame.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Butt posted about it on social media and found she started getting queries about Brady and the story behind the video. <\/p>

“It was super fun,” Butt said. “Grandma comes over every Sunday night for dinner, so I couldn’t wait to tell her.”<\/p>

Brady told BC Today<\/em>‘s Michelle Eliot that some commenters have focused on her accent and unique pronunciation of words like “oregano” and “pizzeria,” which Butt says have become something of an inside joke among family members.<\/p>

“It seems to me that I have a bit of an accent, but I don’t really have an accent,” Brady said with a laugh. “I don’t know how that got into it.”<\/p>

Brady graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1954 as a dietitian through its home economics program, which included a course on cooking demonstrations. One of her professors recommended her to CBC for a TV pilot. <\/p>

She says the idea for preparing pizza was hers.<\/p>

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Kathy Brady, 90, returned to CBC Vancouver 66 years after the pizza clip to <\/sup>talk <\/sup>about her newfound internet fame.\u00a0(CBC News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>

“[Pizza] was just sort of coming to the fore\u00a0when I was going to university,” she said. “People were talking about it and going to make it at home because you couldn’t buy it in the store or a restaurant. And so I just thought it was quite unique and it would be an interesting topic.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>

Her 1957 pizza recipe included a base consisting of “a biscuit or a yeast dough,” topped with a tangy tomato sauce, oregano and “nippy cheese,” which Brady describes as “a strong cheddar.”<\/p>

Following her brief TV appearance, Brady had\u00a0a 30-year career as a dietitian, mostly in hospitals and through her own private practice.<\/p>

Butt says she admires how her mother-in-law managed to balance career and family.<\/p>

“I think that’s really admirable in that time,” Butt said. “It’s hard to do it now and it was even harder to do it then.”<\/p>

She says she’s grateful the video has given her the chance to share her mother-in-law’s story with others. <\/p>

“I love the opportunity to see her shine,” Butt said.<\/p>

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