Facts: - death place: london , england - known for: cook wow-wow sauce 's oracle , potato chip , creator of - resting place: st clement danes , city of westminster , london - caption: portrait of kitchiner - death date: 1827 1775 - birth date: 1775 - name: william kitchiner - image size: 170px - nationality: british - image: wmkitchiner detail.jpg - birth place: england Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william kitchiner .
william kitchiner m.d. -lrb- 1775 -- 1827 -rrb- was an english optician , inventor of telescopes , amateur musician and exceptional cook .his name was a household word during the 19th century , and his 1822 cookbook , '' the cook 's oracle '' , was a bestseller in england and the united states .in the united kingdom , the origin of the potato chip is attributed to kitchiner , with '' the cook 's oracle '' including the earliest known recipe .unlike most food writers of the time he cooked the food himself , washed up afterwards , and performed all the household tasks he wrote about .he travelled around with his '' portable cabinet of taste '' , a folding cabinet containing his mustards and sauces .he was also the creator of wow-wow sauce .