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Akkawi cheese (, also Akawi, Akawieh and Ackawi) is a white brine cheese named after the Palestinian city of Akka (Acre, present-day Israel).

Key facts

Cheese.name
Akkawi cheese
Cheese.image
Akawi Cheese.jpg
Cheese.country
Palestine (region)
Cheese.othernames
Akawi, Akawieh and Ackawi
Cheese.region
Levant
Cheese.town
Akka
Cheese.source
Cow
Cheese.texture
Semi-hard
Cheese.namedafter
City of Akka

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Etymology
  • History
  • Production and storage
  • Texture and taste
  • Supply chain problems
  • See also
  • References

Akkawi cheese (, also Akawi, Akawieh and Ackawi) is a white brine cheese named after the Palestinian city of Akka (Acre, present-day Israel).

==Etymology== Akkawi cheese is named after the port city of Akka (). Akkawi in Arabic means "from Akka".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Akkawi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.