What is "breaking bread"

vb. (present participle of break bread English)

Breaking bread may refer to but is not limited to:

• Physically tearing a loaf of bread open, or breaking dry bread apart – traditionally method of separating bread, rather than cutting with a knife
• Metaphorically, having a meal together, or starting a meal
• The Christian Eucharist
• Fractio panis, the practice of breaking the sacramental bread during the Eucharist
• Breaking Bread (TV series)
• Episode 82 of Touched by an Angel
• Breaking bread may refer to sharing

Breaking Bread is a television program on New Evangelization Television that premiered in 2008. The hosts of the show, Tati Amare and Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, visit a different parish every episode and discover the various restaurants (usually three or four) around each church. They also get to know the parish and the neighborhood, while they take a tour of the neighborhood in each 30 minute episode.

Both Tati and Msgr. Jamie share a passion for food and faith -- Tati grew up in her mother's restaurant; Msgr. Jamie graduated from culinary school before becoming a priest.