Comments on: Calçotada: The Unique Catalan Celebration of the Humble Calcot (Onion)

By: Ayngelina

Ayngelina — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:52:33 +0000

So jealous, those calcots look amazing.

By: Stephanie - The Travel Chica

Stephanie - The Travel Chica — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:54:49 +0000

I have never seen or heard of chugging wine like this. Hilarious photo!

By: Richard in Spain

Richard in Spain — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:04:47 +0000

MMmmmm Calçots! I Love em, especialy with yummy Romesco sauce.

By: jade

jade — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:35:17 +0000

This truly was such a great day. I loved hanging out with everyone, meeting people from all over Catalonia and well, stuffing my face with calcots! I’m pretty sure I had at least 9 or 10 of them! And definitely an entire bottle of wine all by myself! Wine in the afternoon is dangerous!

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:41:10 +0000

Sounds like a blast! I can’t really imagine why the taste of these types of onions, but everything tastes better grilled, so why not 🙂 The wine-drinking picture is too cool!

By: Laurel

Laurel — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:30:02 +0000

@Italian Notes – I think they are similar, but according to Wikipedia “Calçot (Catalan pronunciation: [kəɫˈsɔts]) is a variety of green onion known as Blanca gran tardana in the Catalan language from Lleida, Catalonia. The Calçot from Valls (Tarragona, Catalonia) is a registered EU Protected Geographical Indication.[1]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal%C3%A7ot

By: Italian Notes

Italian Notes — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:50:25 +0000

They sure look like spring onions to me.

By: Laurel

Laurel — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:31:25 +0000

@Michael – They’re smaller than leeks and not sure about Porree, will have to look into that, but I believe they are only grown in Catalonia. They remind me of green onions, although they taste a bit different.

@Zhu – Thankyou! 🙂 I think the average is 10/person, but considering it was my first Calçotada, I’m OK with 6.

@Andrea – It was really fun! Surprisingly the calcots were quite mild, or at least they are after they’ve been grilled.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:38:41 +0000

This looks like a fun event! I think you did well eating six – I can’t stand the taste of onions so I don’t think I would be able to have more than one

By: Zhu

Zhu — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:12:04 +0000

After seeing the picture, I figured there was no way you could have eaten 500 😆 Six is already pretty good, no?