The earliest known recipe for potato chips is in William Kitchiner 's cookbook The Cook 's Oracle, first published in 1817, which was a bestseller in England and the United States. The 1822 edition 's version of recipe 104 is called "Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings '' and reads "peel large potatoes, slice them about a quarter of an inch thick, or cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping ''. Early recipes for potato chips in the United States are found in Mary Randolph 's Virginia House - Wife (1824), and in N.K.M. Lee 's Cook 's Own Book (1832), both of which explicitly cite Kitchiner.
who invented potato chips and when was it invented
William Kitchiner 1817