The recipe lays out a mix of 11 herbs and spices that coat the chain’s Original Recipe chicken, including exact amounts for each ingredient. It is written in pencil and signed by Harland Sanders.

Sanders developed the formula in 1940 at his restaurant in southeastern Kentucky and used it to launch the KFC chain in the early 1950s. Sanders died in 1980, but his likeness is still central to ...

American entrepreneur Harland David Sanders, commonly known as Colonel Sanders (Sept. 9, 1890 to Dec. 16, 1980), founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in 1952, but his recipe was first conceived in ...

Colonel Harland Sanders's secret recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken was not revealed in a handwritten note found in the basement of a home once owned by the fast-food giant's founder, KFC have said ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Col. Sanders' handwritten recipe for fried chicken was back in its Kentucky home Tuesday after five months in hiding while KFC upgraded security around its top corporate secret ...

The recipe lays out a mix of 11 herbs and spices that coat the chain’s Original Recipe chicken, including exact amounts for each ingredient. It is written in pencil and signed by Harland Sanders.

Sanders died in 1980, but his likeness is still central to KFC's marketing. KFC had 15,580 locations worldwide at the end of 2008, including 5,253 in the US.