NEW YORK (AP) – Bread requires flour, water, salt, and elevating agents, such as yeast. To break the bread, CNN enlisted in a special person – Tony Charhove.
Broadway and “Monk” star This fall, we will be entering the busy field of Celebrity Travel with “Breaking Bread.”
“It’s about bread, but bread is really a kind of vehicle, a container, explaining history, culture and people, charging people, looking into what they’re doing and why they’re doing,” he says.
Debuting on Sunday night, the series will sample baguettes and buillervaises from France’s Marseille, followed by Charhobs, sampling fluffy milk breads and Tokyo’s red bean paste breads.
“Delicious bread”
Shalfv explores culture and food through the lens of bread, following actors from around the world in a scene from his series Breaking Bread. (CNN via AP)
The first episode is set in Charhove’s current home town of New York City, where he eats old-fashioned pamper nickel and rye bread, as well as Irish soda bread scones. He goes to Chinatown for Brooklyn’s fried dough and black cakes and currant rolls.
“I don’t know how I persuaded people to make this a show. You can eat delicious bread,” the guest said. Lynn Manuel Miranda Charhove tells you to munch on all the bagels of cream cheese and jam.
Charhove finds himself in Brazil in the second episode and enjoys the influence that Lebanese immigrants like him have had on the Sao Paulo food scene: Flatbread, Zaatar, Pistachio and Kibbe. He visits Cassava Farm and learns about deep fried bread bowl-like fermentation made from black eye powder and Afro-Brazilian heritage.
It could be a show about different breads, but Charhove and his team are delighted to try out a variety of local foods and drinks. “This was once a show about bread,” he jokes on screen after slapsing Caipirinha, a Brazilian cocktail. (“Due to schedules, there’s no shortage of daily drinking,” he said in an interview.
A busy field
Anthony Bourdain will speak southwest and southwest at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas on March 13, 2016 (Photo: Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)
Shalhoub is part of a crowded field of celebrity travel hosts; Lane Wilson, Eugene Levy, Stanley Tucci,Orlando Bloom, Zac Efron, Jose Andre, Chris Hemsworth, Will Smith, Eva Longoria, Ewan McGregor.
They’re all going on because it’s late Anthony BrudainCNN’s “Part-Unknown” series was part of some travelogues, some history lessons, and love letters to food.
Amy Entelis, Vice President of Talent, CNN Original and CNN Worldwide’s Vice President of Creative Development, has worked on Bourdain’s show and Greenlit Shalhoub’s.
“No one of us working for is trying to become Tony Brudain. No one thinks they’ll be,” she says. “We’re trying to work with people to go to that mission, but we’re trying to make it theirs.”
Shalhoub won three Emmy Awards for the obsessive private detective Adrian Monk for eight seasons. After the show ended in 2009, Charhove won three Tony Award nominations and won For “Band Visit” in 2018 And the lead role “Amazing Mrs. Maisel” He won another Emmy.
“I don’t want the show to me. I feel like I’m playing more as a tour guide, so to speak. I want more about that, the people I meet, the people I interview, the new places I visit,” says Charhove.
“I don’t know that TV audiences need to see me more and more after these years. I certainly don’t want to see a lot of myself.”
Bring your family
Shalhoub will be taking part in the world premiere of Prime Video’s “Play Dirty” at the SVA Theater on Wednesday, September 24th, 2025. (Photo by Photo/Invision/AP)
“Breaking Bread” is a travel and food show, but it’s also a family event. Charuve’s eldest son Josie joined Marseille as he traced his father’s 1920 city trip. His wife, Brooke Adams and daughter Sophie are with him in Iceland, but his brother and nephew are featured in the Wisconsin-based episode.
“The bread to me is tied to our childhood and to memories bound by our parents, grandparents and all of their contemporaries,” he says. “We’ve been drawing from the past, but it’s something we want to give to our grandchildren, we want to move forward and move forward.”
Enteris says that Charhove’s shows are largely loved. Because he has never done anything like this, and he says he comes out like a water fish that is open to his heart no matter where he is.
“You get really fresh and new people for this kind of job, but you come to it with a deep love and passion for food, people and travel,” she says. “This is Tony behind the actor and we really feel like we understand that person well.”
But there is a moment that ranks the natives of his present homeland. During an episode of New York, Charhove is seduced by Jersey City across the river, where he is introduced to “The Best Pizza in New York.”
Is the best New York pizza in New Jersey? “I’m going to go to Secrets now for the rest of my life,” he jokes.
