Taking advantage of seasonal bounty surely explains ratatouille, that classic vegetable melange from the south of France, whose name derives from a word for mixing.

We would feast outdoors on local, seasonal bounty as we looked out on the vineyards and Mont Ventoux.

Below, the rock and jazz critics of The Times survey the seasonal bounty.

The boy, whose father has sold himself into indentured servitude for three years, witnesses the dark secret of his small village, a stone-poor place regulated by the sea's seasonal bounty.

Liaisons between breeding bears are brief, and the only times bears are encountered in small groups are mothers with young or occasional seasonal bounties of rich food (such as salmon runs).

WITH farm markets and produce stands in full bloom, I am always experimenting with new recipes to take advantage of the seasonal bounty.

Ms. Kupec noted that area stores regularly contribute leftover produce, but the seasonal bounty from the cooperative couldn't come at a better time.

"To me, this is normal," Hayward said of his seasonal bounty.

More Long Islanders are joining the corps of nature-lovers who stay home to explore the seasonal bounty here in their own backyards.

The Cro-Magnon people will have been here to make use of that seasonal bounty in a way comparable with the medieval view of the same area.