Kentucky Fried Chicken founder had more than one secret

Paula Deen and Nigella Lawson step aside. Colonel Harland Sanders is about to teach the world "real old-time country and farm cooking before it's forgotten."

Yes, Colonel Sanders.

On yellowed pages hidden for decades, the white-jacketed man with a special fried chicken recipe and a vision that helped create the modern fast-food industry reveals he saw a future in another lucrative market - celebrity food books.

The recent discovery of an unpublished manuscript written by the founder of KFC shows that while Sanders was helping build Kentucky Fried Chicken into a global brand, he was recording his life and love of food - and recipes - for the world.

No, not THAT recipe.

Sanders' secret mix of 11 herbs and spices remains locked inside the company's vault.

But the manuscript from the mid-1960s, found recently by an employee rummaging through KFC's archives, again shows that the man who started the world's most popular chicken chain from a Social Security check and his secret recipe was a man before his time.

Text: AP

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