est. 10,000 BCE / founded 2023

When we share a meal, we share so much more.

Breaking Bread uses food to create connections and community across backgrounds and beliefs. Around the table, discussion becomes more human, difference becomes less hostile, and strangers become neighbors. It’s a simple idea with thousands of years of history to show for it.

Hands passing a shared bowl of pasta at a full table

People in conversation at a shared table

Why Break Bread?

Since 10,000 BCE, people have built bridges over shared meals. Breaking Bread uses food diplomacy and facilitated dinner dialogues to bring people together. Founded at Rollins College in 2023, an academic question became a community. One table became many. We don’t all have to agree by dessert. We just have to be willing to sit together at the table.

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Recognized by These Organizations
WESH — CommUNITY Champion Rollins College Central Florida Public Media Interfaith America

Rollins College

Where we set the table.

Rollins College Breaking Bread table

Dinner Discourses. Interfaith and intercultural events. Monthly Eatings. One of Rollins’ fastest-growing student organizations.

University of Central Florida

Where our movement spread.

UCF Breaking Bread group

From a small liberal arts college to one of America’s largest universities. UCF proved people everywhere were hungry for dialogue.

Phoenix Generation

Where we needed more chairs.

Phoenix Generation large group dialogue

Invited to lead Breaking Bread’s largest-ever program. 400 young leaders dined and dialogued together at the leadership conference.

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