Tony Shalhoub explores global cultures through bread in new CNN series 'Breaking Bread'

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This image released by CNN shows Tony Shalhoub, center, in a scene from his series "Breaking Bread," which follows the actor across the globe as he explores cultures and food through the lens of bread. (CNN via AP)

NEW YORK – To make bread, you need flour, water, salt and, usually, a rising agent, like yeast. To break bread, CNN has enlisted someone special — Tony Shalhoub.

The Broadway and “Monk” star enters the crowded field of celebrity travel hosts this fall with “Breaking Bread,” which follows the actor across the globe as he explores cultures and food through the lens of bread.

“It is about bread, but bread really as a kind of a vehicle, a vessel, to illustrate and billboard history and culture and people and find out what they do and why they do what they do,” he says