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From a strictly theoretical perspective, bread has the halachic leniency of pat paltar (baked by a professional) that does not exist with regards to bishul akum. That's very clear on the books. … The former type of store is dedicated to bread and there are fewer kosher-ingredients concerns compared to the latter, which also makes cakes and pastries.) …

There are some foods that blur the line between the categories of bread and non-bread. No matter how much pasta you eat, it's always "mezonot." … Some rabbis feel that the apple-juice trick doesn't work, it's still bread and therefore hamotzee. …

There are rumors about what sorts of bread are okay in France -- are they baked at a bread-only boulongerie or a cakes-too patisserie? -- depending on ingredients and government regulation. …

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 48:4: אִם מִתְּחִלָּה הָיָה בְּדַעְתּוֹ לֶאֱכוֹל רַק מְעַט, וּבֵרַךְ בּוֹרֵא מִינֵי מְזוֹנוֹת, וְאַחַר כָּךְ נִמְלַךְ לֶאֱכוֹל שִׁעוּר קְבִיעַת סְעוּדָּה, אִם בָּזֶה שֶׁהוּא רוֹ …

I was told orally that the Noda Bihudah, if I recall correctly, defends those who have such a practice as we seek to make our tables similar to the Mizbeach, and the meat that was to be placed on the …

There are people who ritualize this in all sorts of ways -- not necessary. The point is that it's important to eat breakfast!

As a contrast to the manna, which was described as "lechem min hashamayim." "Shamayim" goes with "aretz." Not to mention that's how the verse in Psalms (Borchi Nafshi, like we say after davening on Ro …

"snacky quasi-bread". If one eats enough to call it a meal, s/he says hamotzee before and birkas hamazon afterwards. … (DoubleAA quoted the opinion of Rabbi Welcher and others that pizza is automatically "real bread" every time.) …