The direct answer to the question you have asked is that it allowed the colonials to eat cooked food. If you meant something else, you might like to re-ask the question so that it asks what you actually want to know.
My answer will be, to cook everything to keep healthy. In another words to kill the bacteria and germs.
reasons
Apothecaries were important because they provided herbal medications for the people. They were also like modern-day drugstores and sold tobbacco, toothbrushes, candles, cooking spices etc.
Pots & pans for cooking
what was important to bakers
dining porpouses
Southern colonial time was very different then today. they did alot of croping cooking clothes making and not alot of kids went to school SS(:
what two important seaports in colonial American
At a fireplace in the kitchen is where the cooking took place in Colonial America.
Doctors were important because lots of people in colonials times got sick.
a colonial cooking spider is a pot with 3 long legs coming off of it, and you place it over a fire to cook stuFF IN
Well, women did not have jobs in colonial times. But, they did do things at home such as cooking, sewing, feeding the chickens, watching the children, and cleaning. Sometimes, if they lived in the South or was a slave, they would farm.
they tanned leather and gave it to shoemakers to make shoes for the vilagers