Calçotada: A Traditional Catalan BBQ Feast

Rachel McCormack of Catalan Cooking and radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet is hosting a calçotada in central London. A traditional Catalan feast from the town of Valls, this involves eating flamed grilled calçots (a cross between a leek and a spring onion), by peeling the carrbonized outer layer, dipping them in romesco sauce and then stuffing them in your mouth. People from Valls insist this requires you to look up to the heavens and is in no way phallic. You may like to make up your own mind.