In the pre-industrial era, it was largely about refueling the body for arduous physical work--and if people came together to eat, this was for practical purposes: they gathered when the food was ready and when it was hot.
Cocoa production involves many different farming activities, some of which are arduous, and many of which involve heavy physical work.
Really hard physical work.
He writes about the arduous physical and mental tests.
Arduous physical therapy is essential, and recovery can be long and painful.
And, on a base level, they made arduous physical journeys across the water.
Here musical performance is mingled with arduous physical training and everyday life experiences.
It took many months of arduous physical therapy to be weaned from pain medication and to regain the ability to move about.
Three weeks of live television is an arduous physical challenge and Hughes-Games reveals that Packham nearly didn't survive the final week this year.
But what did interest him was the world of dance and the contradiction between what is seen on the stage and the arduous physical process, the physical humiliations of the dancers.
