Charred Scallions

A favorite culinary multitool

Given the importance of alliums in just about every cuisine, I feel like scallions get short shrift. Sure, their affinity for ginger and other spices makes them great as a sliced raw garnish on anything remotely Asian, but apart from grilled calçots in Catalonia and similar treatments in East Asia they’re rarely celebrated as a solo act. For me, one key…