MANGOES FOR BREAKFAST

It’s mango season, and thanks to the generosity of a Moke’s Bread & Breakfast fan who had a bumper crop this year, other customers can enjoy summer gold, mango-li hing pancakes.

For a limited time, possibly two weeks, the pancakes are available at $9.95 for a short stack of two or $10.95 for a full stack of three. The fruit goes into a mellow mango cream that is not overly sweet, and the dusting of li hing salt is a nice balancing accent.

In case they do run out, lilikoi pancakes are another nice option.

The mango pancakes are only at the Kaimuki location, 1127 11th Ave. (where Kan Zaman used to be). Call 367-0571.

— Nadine Kam, Special to the Star-Advertiser

FOOD + ADVENTURE

More than a million people have taken a peek at food gathering in Hawaii through the online video series “It’s Alive: Goin’ Places,” featuring the intrepid culinary explorer Brad Leone.

The four Hawaii episodes make up the second season of Leone’s show, filmed for the Bon Appetit channel on YouTube. The first season was shot in Texas.

Leone is not the type of TV host who watches and narrates as hunters and gatherers go about their work. He gets his hands dirty pulling up crops at Ma’o Organic Farm, gets his hands bloody skinning a wild boar on the Big Island and gets his whole self wet free-diving with national spearfishing champion Kimi Werner off the Kona coast.

Leone, test kitchen manager for Bon Appetit magazine, has an I’ll-try-anything attitude that has him hunting, fishing, farming, cooking and tasting all manner of foods. “It’s Alive: Goin’ Places” is his second online series; the first was called simply “It’s Alive” and has more than 6.3 million collective views.

“It’s Alive” covered the making of foods such as yogurt and honey; “Goin’ Places” incorporates cultural lessons tied to food.

Some parts of the show are not for the squeamish. Leone and his Big Island hosts kill a boar with a knife to the heart; at one point Werner kills an octopus by biting it between the eyes. “It’s just the most humane way,” she tells Leone.

Each episode is about 16 minutes long and ends with a meal.

Find them at 808ne.ws/youtubeleone. The first three have drawn hundreds of thousands of views apiece since the first one dropped two weeks ago. The spearfishing episode alone has 988,000 views. The fourth episode, a food-tasting tour that incorporates shave ice, poke and pastele, dropped Tuesday.

— Betty Shimabukuro, Star-Advertiser