Where is col sanders from

His life story—and his road to fast-food fame—includes a lot more than just chicken. When Harland Sanders first began to serve meals to truck drivers at an old family dining room table wheeled into the front of his Corbin, Kentucky, service station in , fried chicken was not on the menu because it took too long to prepare.

Food critic Duncan Hines included the restaurant in his road-food guide, and it was there in that the colonel used pressure cookers to perfect his quick-frying chicken coated in his secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices. When the future fast-food giant painted advertising signs on barns for miles around, the aggressive marketing tactic rankled Matt Stewart, who operated a nearby Standard Oil gas station. Told that Stewart was painting over one of his signs for a second time, Sanders rushed to the scene with two Shell executives.

Sanders returned fire and wounded Stewart in the shoulder. Stewart was sentenced to 18 years in prison for murder, but charges against Sanders were dropped after his arrest.

Sanders, who falsified his birth date in order to enlist in the U. Army in , served in Cuba for several months before his honorable discharge. But he wasn't pleased with the taste of his famous chicken and gravy. The suit was eventually thrown out. But at least he'll always be remembered as the "Carl Sagan of Chicken. By Matt Blitz Updated December 23, Save FB Tweet More.

Colonel Sanders. All rights reserved. Close Sign in. This special recipe remains a closely guarded secret. In the late s, Sanders went to a demonstration on a new device called the pressure cooker that turned out great-tasting green beans in a matter of minutes. He started to wonder if it would do the same for his chicken. After experimenting with the pressure cooker, he came out with the best fried chicken he had ever tasted. To this day KFC still fries its chicken in pressure cookers.

In , Sanders devoted himself to the chicken-franchising business. He traveled across the country and cooked batches of his chicken for restaurant owners and their employees.