KFC describes its closely guarded original fried chicken recipe as “one of the biggest trade secrets in the world.” The company says the original handwritten recipe is housed in a 770-pound safe encased in two feet of concrete and guarded by video cameras and motion detectors.肯德基将其森严城主的原创炸鸡配方称作“世界上仅次于的商业秘密之一”。该公司回应，最初的手写配方被放到一个770磅（约合350公斤）轻的保险箱里，外面还封了两英尺薄水泥，另有摄像头和动作探测器监控。It is the Fort Knox of fried chicken.它就是炸鸡界的诺克斯堡（Fort Knox，美国国家金库所在地。

——学术著作）。Despite all that, the recipe for the spice blend used to prepare the chicken may have been accidentally revealed to a reporter for The Chicago Tribune by Joe Ledington, a nephew of the man who made the recipe famous. The newspaper printed the article, along with what might be the recipe, last week.尽管如此，这个用来油炸鸡块的香料配方有可能早已被乔莱丁顿(Joe Ledington)无意间泄漏给了《芝加哥论坛报》(The Chicago Tribune)的一名记者。乔是让这个配方有名的人的侄子。

上周，这家报纸公开发表了一篇文章，里面提及了这个有可能为知道配方。The reporter, Jay Jones, was sent to Corbin, Ky., to write a story for The Tribune’s travel section about the town where the colonel served his first fried chicken. 《芝加哥论坛报》记者杰伊琼斯(Jay Jones)原本是被派往肯塔基州科尔宾城编写一篇有关这个城镇的旅游文章。While there, he arranged a meeting with Mr. Ledington, whose uncle, Col. Harland Sanders, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken and was its snowy-haired ambassador.肯德基(Kentucky Fried Chicken)创始人哈兰桑德斯(Harland Sanders)上校就是在这里售出了自己的第一块炸鸡，如今他白发苍苍的形象沦为这个城镇的一个标志。

在科尔宾期间，琼斯致电了桑德斯的侄子莱丁顿。Mr. Ledington greeted the reporter with a family scrapbook that he said had belonged to Claudia Ledington, the second wife of Colonel Sanders, who died in 1996. 为了对这名记者的来临回应青睐，莱丁顿让他网页了一本家族剪贴簿。他说道这个剪贴簿原归属于桑德斯上校的第二任妻子克劳迪娅莱丁顿(Claudia Ledington)，后者于1996年去世。

Her last will and testament was stuffed in the back of the scrapbook and its final pages contained a handwritten recipe for a blend of 11 spices, Mr. Jones said.琼斯回应，剪贴簿的后面有克劳迪娅的遗言和遗嘱，最后一页有一张手写配方，表明有11种原料。“That is the original 11 herbs and spices that were supposed to be so secretive,” Mr. Ledington told the reporter, later adding that as a boy his job in the family business was to mix the spice blend in a tub on the roof of the garage.“那是最初的配方里用于的11种香草和香料，这是要保密的，”莱丁顿对记者说。后来，他还提及他小时候在家族企业里的工作，就是在车库屋顶上用一个盆子调配这些原料。

“The main ingredient is white pepper,” Mr. Ledington told the newspaper. “I call that the secret ingredient. Nobody knew what white pepper was. Nobody knew how to use it” in the 1950s, he said.“主要原料是白胡椒，”莱丁顿对这家报纸布道。“我把它叫做谜样配料，”他说道。50年代的时候，“没有人告诉什么是白胡椒。

也没有人告诉怎么用。”In a later phone interview, The Tribune said, Mr. Ledington walked back his claim, saying he had never shown the recipe to a reporter before and did not “know for sure” if it was as authentic as he first said. He did not respond to a phone message on Wednesday requesting an interview.《芝加哥论坛报》回应，在后来又拒绝接受电话专访时，莱丁顿夺权了原本的众说纷纭，称之为自己根本没给一名记者看完配方，也不“确认”这个配方是不是知道。他没对此时报周三以语音facebook形式收到的专访催促。

Kentucky Fried Chicken takes any threat to its secret recipe very seriously, and in the past has sued to keep it under wraps. 肯德基对其秘方受到的任何威胁都谨慎以备，以前为了保密曾驳回诉讼。In an email on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Yum! Brands, the corporate parent of KFC, which is based in Louisville, Ky., said the recipe contained in Ms. Ledington’s will was incorrect.周三，肯德基的母公司百胜餐饮集团(Yum! Brands)的发言人在一封邮件中回应，莱丁顿的遗嘱中包括的配方是不准确的。

百胜的总部坐落于肯塔基州的路易斯维尔。“Many people have made these claims over the years and no one has been accurate — this one isn’t either,” the company said in a statement.“多年来，很多人都这样说道过——但没一张配方是准确的，这张也不值得注意，”该公司在一份声明中回应。

So, how do you make Colonel Sanders’s secret spice blend? The world may never know. In the meantime, here is the recipe that the colonel’s nephew showed The Chicago Tribune:那么，如何提炼桑德斯上校的秘密调料呢？公众也许总有一天也会告诉。

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