Editing KFC (section)

=== Sanders Court & Café ===
[[Harland Sanders]] was born in 1890 and raised on a farm outside [[Henryville, Indiana]] (near [[Louisville, Kentucky]]).<ref name="Whitworth-1970">{{cite news|last=Whitworth|first=William|title=Kentucky-Fried|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1970/02/14/1970_02_14_040_TNY_CARDS_000295737|access-date=February 23, 2013|newspaper=[[The New Yorker]]|date=February 14, 1970|archive-date=May 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530031613/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1970/02/14/1970_02_14_040_TNY_CARDS_000295737|url-status=live}}</ref> When Sanders was five years old, his father died, forcing his mother to work at a [[canning]] plant.<ref name="Klotter2005">{{cite book|author-link=James C. Klotter|last=Klotter|first=James C.|title=The Human Tradition in the New South|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2UtXHKGj0sC&pg=PA210|access-date=June 29, 2013|year=2005|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|isbn=978-0-7425-4476-5|page=129|archive-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313151216/https://books.google.com/books?id=X2UtXHKGj0sC&pg=PA210|url-status=live}}</ref> This left Sanders, as the eldest son, to care for his two younger siblings.<ref name="Klotter2005" /> After he reached seven years of age, his mother taught him how to cook.<ref name="Whitworth-1970" /> After leaving the family home at the age of 13, Sanders passed through several professions with mixed success.<ref name="celebritychef3">{{cite book|last=Sanders |first=Harland |title=The Autobiography of the Original Celebrity Chef |year=2012 |publisher=KFC |location=Louisville |page=15 |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/colcookbook/us/pdf/English_FullBook.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055011/https://s3.amazonaws.com/colcookbook/us/pdf/English_FullBook.pdf |archive-date=September 21, 2013 }}</ref>

In 1930, Sanders took over a [[Shell plc|Shell]] [[filling station]] on [[U.S. Route 25 in Kentucky|U.S. Route 25]] just outside [[North Corbin, Kentucky]], a small town on the edge of the [[Appalachian Mountains]].<ref name="Ozersky2012">{{cite book|last=Ozersky|first=Josh|title=Colonel Sanders and the American Dream|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qh5AEnwoJuIC|access-date=September 27, 2013|date=April 2012|publisher=[[University of Texas Press]]|isbn=978-0-292-74285-7|pages=19–24|archive-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313151203/https://books.google.com/books?id=qh5AEnwoJuIC|url-status=live}}</ref> It was here that he first served to travelers the recipes that he had learned as a child: fried chicken and other dishes such as steaks and [[country ham]].<ref name="Ozersky2012" /> After four years of serving from his own dining room table, Sanders purchased the larger filling station on the other side of the road and expanded to six tables.<ref name="Aaseng2001">{{cite book|last=Aaseng|first=Nathan|title=Business Builders in Fast Food|url=https://archive.org/details/businessbuilders00nath_0|url-access=registration|access-date=March 13, 2013|date=January 2001|publisher=Oliver Press|isbn=978-1-881508-58-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/businessbuilders00nath_0/page/116 116]}}</ref> By 1936, this had proven successful enough for Sanders to be given the honorary title of [[Kentucky Colonel]] by [[List of Governors of Kentucky|Governor]] [[Ruby Laffoon]].<ref name="Smith2011">{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Andrew F.|title=Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wq3tvL_uIHcC&pg=PA612|date=December 2, 2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-39394-5|page=612|access-date=February 21, 2016|archive-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313151151/https://books.google.com/books?id=Wq3tvL_uIHcC&pg=PA612|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1937 he expanded his restaurant to 142 seats and added a motel he purchased across the street, naming it [[Harland Sanders Café and Museum|Sanders Court & Café]].<ref name="Hollis1920">{{cite book|last=Hollis|first=Tim|title=Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecaVOl1wzg0C&pg=PT19|year=1999|publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]]|isbn=978-1-61703-374-2|pages=19–20|access-date=February 21, 2016|archive-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313151219/https://books.google.com/books?id=ecaVOl1wzg0C&pg=PT19|url-status=live}}</ref>

Sanders was unhappy with the 35 minutes it took to prepare his chicken in an iron frying pan, but he refused to [[deep frying|deep fry]] the chicken, which he believed lowered the quality of the product.<ref name="Sanders-1974">{{cite book|last=Sanders|first=Harland|title=The Incredible Colonel|year=1974|publisher=Creation House|location=Illinois|pages=98–131|isbn=978-0-88419-053-0}}</ref> If he pre-cooked the chicken in advance of orders, there was sometimes wastage at day's end.<ref name="Whitworth-1970" /> In 1939, the first commercial [[pressure cooker]]s were released onto the market, mostly designed for steaming vegetables.<ref name="Binney2012">{{cite book|last=Binney|first=Ruth|title=Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfQg_xASoTEC&pg=PA202|date=April 1, 2012|publisher=David & Charles|isbn=978-0-7153-3420-1|page=202}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Sanders bought one and modified it into a [[pressure frying|pressure fryer]], which he then used to fry chicken.<ref name="history" /> The new method reduced production time to be comparable with deep frying while, in the opinion of Sanders, retaining the quality of pan-fried chicken.<ref name="Sanders-1974" />