KFC finds the Colonel's other secret recipes

Col. Harland Sanders, 77, head of the multimilion-dollar Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, is shown in 1968. AP Photo

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Paula Deen, step aside. Colonel Harland Sanders is about to teach America "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The recent discovery of an unpublished manuscript written by the founder of KFC shows that while Sanders was helping build Kentucky Fried Chicken into a global brand, he was recording his life and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.

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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.

"This is a new kind of book," Sanders wrote in the first chapter of an approximately 200-page, typewritten manuscript that KFC plans to offer up on the Internet. "There's never been another written like it as far as I know.

"It's the story of a man's life and the story of the food he's cooked and eaten, running right along with it."

The half-inch-thick document is chock full of homespun anecdotes and life lessons from Sanders, who struck it rich late in life. It also includes a heaping helping of his favorite personal recipes.

"To me, my recipes are priceless," he wrote.

You can say that again.

The secret blend of herbs and spices, one of the most enduring corporate secrets in American food folklore, isn't revealed in the manuscript, KFC executives say.

But the Colonel proved he was more than a chicken man. On these pages are preserved his personal recipes for omelets, pancakes, casseroles, pies and many more dishes that he said reflected his affinity for "real old-time country and farm cooking." It's a veritable smorgasbord of main dishes, side dishes, desserts and sauces.

And the man who built the KFC chain by cooking up batches of chicken for prospective franchisees promised to offer insights into his culinary style: "I'll be telling you how to prepare it like a man who's talking to you right over your kitchen stove," he wrote.

The company is treating the manuscript like its own Holy Grail. The manuscript is tucked inside KFC's electronic safe in a vault at its Louisville headquarters. It sits next to the Colonel's famous handwritten chicken recipe.

His philosophy on life and cooking spring to life from the pages, 31 years after his death at age 90 in 1980.

"We can't wait to share its secrets with KFC fans around the globe," said Roger Eaton, the restaurant chain's CEO. "Colonel Sanders was a lifelong cook and sage and his life lessons are just as powerful and relevant today as they were 40 years ago."

The company plans to publish the manuscript online, probably sometime next year, said Laurie Schalow, a spokeswoman for Yum Brands Inc., the parent of KFC. The Colonel's insights on hard work and giving it your best will be available for free, she said.

KFC plans to share some of the recipes, but others may stay hidden in the vault.

"We're in the early stages of testing recipes and are excited about the potential to incorporate some of the newly discovered dishes alongside the Colonel's Original Recipe on menus around the globe," Eaton said.

The company says it serves more than 12 million customers daily in 109 countries and territories around the world. It still plasters the Colonel's image on its signs and chicken buckets.

To see the original article with other extra pictures or videos, drop by the link previously mentionedThe chain has been struggling in the U.S. while its overseas business has been booming, especially in China, where KFC has become a fast-growing brand.

The company has no idea why the manuscript was never published. Sanders took another crack at an autobiography, titled "Life As I Have Known It Has Been `Finger Lickin' Good,"' which was published in 1974. But the book didn't include his recipes.

The unpublished manuscript was unearthed recently by Yum Brands employee Amy Sherwood while she was doing research.

"It was in an envelope," she said. "I opened it up and immediately recognized that it was a treasure and a significant discovery."

KFC said it concluded the text was written in 1965 or 1966 through chats with current and former employees who knew or worked with Sanders. Internal documents also validated that he was working on an autobiography with recipes during that period, it said.

In 1964, Sanders sold his interest in the U.S. company for $2 million to a group of investors, but he remained the company's pitchman, becoming one of the world's most recognized faces.

In his manuscript, Sanders offers up lessons on business and life. "I've only had two rules," he wrote. "Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something."

Sanders extolled the virtues of simple, home-style cooking while taking shots at other forms of culinary advice.

"I've read hundreds of cookbooks," he wrote. "For my money they are the bird."

He said just a few of his recipes "are worth more than all the imported recipes, with names an ordinary man or woman can't even pronounce, put together."

"The way I see it, if you've bought this book, you've bought yourself a bargain," Sanders said.

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Dogs can sniff out prostate cancer in urine

By Bridgett Novak

NEW YORK Mon May 19, 2014 4:55pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Highly-trained dogs are able to detect prostate cancer in urine with 98 percent accuracy, according to a study presented May 18 at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association in Orlando.

"This study gives us a standardized method of diagnosis that is reproducible, low cost and non-invasive," said lead author Dr. Gianluigi Taverna, chief of the prostatic diseases unit at the Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, Italy.

"Using dogs to recognize prostate cancer might help reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies and better pinpoint patients at high risk for the disease," he told Reuters Health in an email.

Researchers in Italy enrolled 902 participants and divided them into two main groups: 362 men with prostate cancer, ranging from very-low risk tumors to metastatic disease, and a control group made up of 540 men and women in generally good health or affected by other types of cancer or non-tumor related diseases. All participants provided urine samples.

Two 3-year old, female German Shepherds named Zoe and Liu were trained for about five months at the Italian Ministry of Defense's Military Veterinary Center in Grosseto using the positive reinforcement "clicker method" and "imprinting," during which the dogs learn to distinguish certain distinctive scents.

Both Zoe and Liu had previously worked as explosive-detection dogs.

During the training, 200 urine samples from the prostate cancer group and 230 samples from the control group were analyzed. The dogs were taught to recognize prostate cancer-specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the samples.

New urine samples were provided for the evaluation phase.

The dogs were instructed to sit in front of each sample where they detected the prostate cancer VOC. None of the team members knew which samples were which, except the chief medical veterinary surgeon, who observed from outside the room. The dogs were rewarded when correct identifications were verified.

Dog 1 achieved 100 percent accuracy in detecting samples from prostate cancer patients and 98 percent accuracy in eliminating samples that did not come from a prostate cancer patient.

Dog 2 was close, with 98.6 percent accuracy in detecting prostate cancer and 96.4 percent accuracy in eliminating those that didn't have the disease.

Overall, the dogs had 16 false positives and four false negatives.

Though the high accuracy displayed by the dogs is encouraging, they are not about to replace human doctors, Taverna pointed out. Plenty of other information, like tumor stage and size, and the age of the patient - none of which the dogs can detect - go into determining treatment, he noted.

Dog-detection is a technique that "needs to be combined with other, common diagnostic tools (PSA, biopsy, MRI, etc.)," Taverna said

Dr. J. Kellogg Parsons, a surgeon at the University of California-San Diego's Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, considers the findings "provocative."

However, he told Reuters Health, "The results need to be validated in different patient populations and using different dogs. If the results can be replicated, then we need to zero in on the biological or chemical factor(s) that are at play."

"Our ability to use dogs in a clinical setting to detect cancer is limited," he added. "Therefore, we need to determine what biomarkers are being picked up here."

Taverna said his team hopes to pinpoint exactly what the dogs are picking up on. "We want to expand on our current study by converting the chemicals detected by the dogs into gas chromatography-mass spectrometry so the process can be duplicated by machine. "

While humans have roughly five million olfactory cells (receptors that detect different odors) in their noses, dogs have about 200 million. For years, law enforcement and the military have used dogs to help locate bombs, drugs and missing people.

Recent studies have shown that dogs can also alert people to epileptic and diabetic seizures (the latter reportedly through the smell of breath or sweat).

Researchers have also been testing dogs' ability to detect melanoma, as well as breast, lung, bladder and ovarian cancer. One study showed that dogs could detect ovarian cancer in tissue and blood samples; another focused on VOCs in urine for detecting bladder cancer.

Dr. Taverna's research is building on an earlier study conducted in 2010 that demonstrated a dog's ability to sniff out prostate cancer; however that study was relatively small with just 33 patients.

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