Article: `Secret Recipe' Gets Shelbyville, Ky., Restaurateurs into Finger-Lickin' Mess.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Feb. 3--ATLANTA--Tommy and Cherry Settle are still amazed at how a brown leather datebook got them in such a finger-lickin' mess.

For decades, the 1964 datebook sat undisturbed in a box in the basement of the white-brick mansion in Shelbyville, Ky., once owned by Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col. Harland Sanders and his wife, Claudia.

Until recently it was locked in a courthouse safe while a cast of characters argued about whether it's the secret recipe for the world's most famous fried chicken, a list of seasonings for stuffing or a discarded recipe.

Although they own Shelbyville's Claudia Sanders Dinner House, the Settles say they never ...

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