A variety of banana with a skin which goes black as the banana approaches readiness. It has a strawberry-apple flavour.

A variety of red radish producing hot, red, round roots to harvest from March to October.

Marathon bars were developed by Forrest Mars who also invented the Mars bar. They were called Marathon bars in the UK and Snickers in the United States. In 1992 the Marathon was changed to the Snickers Bar in the UK, leading to great dismay. Frank Mars, the father of Forrest Mars, had patented the Milky Way in the United States. Forrest Mars also invented Maltesers and M&Ms.

A cake made with vanilla-flavoured dough mixed loosely with chocolate-flavoured dough to produce a marbled effect.

A traditional Cheddar with red and white marbling. The flavour varies from mild to sharp.

Streaking of meat with thin seams of intermuscular fat which, during cooking, bastes and tenderises the meat.

March is the third month of the western calendar, at the end of which falls my birthday. It is an unpredictable month, evidenced by the fact that I have had both swimming parties and skating parties on my birthday!