Cooks don't cry...with Calcots, Onions from Catalonia

Having spent many summers in the French part of Catalonia right by the Spanish border, I don't remember ever tasting Calçots.
 
In her Onions that make you laugh, not cry Sue Style turns the degustation of these Catalan Onions into theater with her statement that "to enjoy calçots at their best, you need a ferocious appetite, scruffy clothes and a well-developed sense of fun. Real enthusiasts only ever do calçots standing up".