Akkawi vs Feta
Akkawi
Facts
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Brined
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Cyprus
Akkawi is a white brine cheese linked with Cyprus and with the wider Levant. The block is pale, smooth, and semi-soft, and it has no rind. It sits in salty whey so it will keep, which makes the first taste quite salty. A soak in fresh water pulls some of that salt out before cooking or a meal. What remains is mild, milky, and a little elastic.
Feta
Facts
- Milk
- Sheep
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Brined
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Greece
- Status
- PDO
Feta is a brined cheese from Greece, and a protected name. The protected cheese is made from sheep's milk, or from sheep's milk with some goat's milk. It is not a cow's-milk cheese.