Spotlight: Where did the Jaffa cake get its name from?
Presenter: Rami Assaf
Delivered: London on January 21, 2024
Rami was wondering why people in UK pronounced the cake Jaffa Cake, yet despite that it has the same spelling as the city of Yaffa in Palestine. So, after he began researching it, it turns out that the Jaffa Cake is named that way because it uses the Jaffa orange as its flavor. The more he found that the history of the Jaffa orange and this little confectionary can teach us a lot about the history of Palestine.
Sources and Future References
Israel’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Jaffa city | News | Al Jazeera
The End of the Jaffa Orange Highlights Israel Economic Shift - Bloomberg
Jaffa: The Rise and Fall of an Agrarian City | Institute for Palestine Studies
The Jaffa Orange: A cross between Arab and Jewish influences
برتقال يافا قبل... - Palestinian heritage التراث الفلسطيني | Facebook
Note: All community presentations are prepared & presented by non-experts on the subject. They are sharing information in the hopes of spurring interest in that subject.
About Afikra Community Presentations
Delivered and prepared by afikra Community members, the presentation’s goal is to showcase the presenter’s curiosity and research and share some knowledge on a topic related to the Arab world’s histories and cultures. The presentation is the culmination of the afikra coaching process to help identify a topic, find research, and develop the presentation. afikra presentations come in two forms, a long question-driven afikra Feature, and a short afikra FWD with the purpose of sharing something interesting.
