This video dives into the real story of Colonel Harland Sanders, from his rocky early life and countless failures to the creation and global rise of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Colonel Sanders is probably the most recognizable icon in fast food history. However, most people don't know too much about the man himself. Much of what you may have heard is little more than ...

The Colonel’s early life. Harland David Sanders was born in 1890 in Henryville, Indiana. He grew up in a poor household and had a rough childhood.

T here's arguably no real-life person who's become a better-known face of a fast food brand than Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Harland Sanders. The man who began the KFC empire (Here's why KFC ...

Business in Kentucky dried up by the mid-’50s, when the creation of Interstate 75 leeched business from Sanders’ roadside restaurant, motel and service station on the old U.S. 25.

As he wrote in his 2003 biography of Sanders: What made the chicken great was the innovation of using a pressure cooker to make it. It's much less glamorous than any secret mixture of herbs and ...