Eating seasonally in March is a real treat, as Tom Parker Bowles explains.
‘It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold,’ writes Charles Dickens in Great Expectations, ‘when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.’ That’s the thing about March — it may well mark the start of spring, all green shoots and boxing hares, but it still has a bitter bite.
Things, however, are looking up for the greedy forager. Nettles…