Bruce Schreiner
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/ 26 July 2005

KFC still keeps the colonel’s recipe under lock and key

The handwritten recipe that launched a fast-food dynasty and made colonel Harland Sanders world famous is locked away at KFC headquarters — its contents so concealed that not even the chain’s top executive knows the ingredients. It was 65 years ago this month, at his roadside restaurant in Corbin, that Sanders perfected the blend of 11 herbs and spices for his ”finger lickin’ good” chicken.