Herb roasted pork tenderloin for Sunday dinner - Statesboro Herald

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I love a Sunday in the South. There’s just something about the relaxed nature of the day and spending time with family that feels right. We usually spend the morning at church, followed by Sunday lunch or brunch out on the town, but I also love the tradition of cooking a delicious meal and gathering around the family table for Sunday dinner. 

Growing up, my mom would often invite my Grandma and other family members over on Sunday afternoon, and she’d make a big batch of lasagna and her mayonnaise biscuits, served on that classic blue and white china that everyone seems to have. For dessert, we’d have homemade ice cream or pound cake with strawberries and cream. 

After everyone was full to the brim, we’d spend the afternoon rocking on the front porch, playing in the yard or riding the golf cart with my puppy in tow, around our sleepy little town.

Last Sunday at my house, I kept that tradition alive and made my Herb Roasted Pork Tenderloin, served with garlic mashed potatoes and roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon and fresh parmesan cheese. I invited my mother-in-law, Mrs. Leslie, over and my husband’s Aunt Polly. The two are widowed sisters in their 70s and rarely go anywhere without the other by her side. They like driving in the daytime, so Sunday afternoon was the perfect time to have them join us. The meal was simple but so flavorful and couldn’t be any easier. 

While the meat and vegetables were roasting, I cooked the potatoes on the stovetop, and put it all together while the meat was resting. After a filling dinner, I sat a plate of local, store-bought miniature chocolate chip peanut butter cookies on the coffee table. Hosting doesn’t always have to wear the host out. 

This pork tenderloin combines fresh and dried herbs, and is a wonderful main course in the fall. The pan juices make a Some Kinda Good gravy for serving over the meat and potatoes or rice. 

Consider making my sauteed cinnamon apples and onions with it for a truly seasonal treat. 

Some Kinda Good Herb Roasted   Pork Tenderloin

Serves 4 - 6

• 2 pound pork tenderloin

• 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

• 2 tablespoons of fresh basil, chopped

• 2 tablespoons of fresh rosemary, chopped

• 1 bunch fresh thyme, about 4-5 sprigs

• 1 tablespoon dried oregano

• ½ of one medium onion, sliced

• Salt and pepper to taste

• Water

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Place pork tenderloins in a 9x13 casserole dish. Drizzle with olive oil. Season both sides of the meat liberally with salt and pepper. 

Using your hands, rub the fresh herbs into the meat, until the top, sides and bottom are well coated. Place the dried oregano in the palm of your hand and crush it by rubbing your palms together, while evenly distributing the oregano over the top of the meat. Cover the meat evenly with sliced onion. 

Place the thyme in the dish and fill with water to about one inch up the sides of the pan. Roast the meat for 45-50 minutes until done. Let the meat rest for 10 minutes before slicing. 

Place the pan juices in a gravy boat and serve with the meat.

Rebekah Faulk Lingenfelser is a private chef and the author of the best-selling memoir “Some Kinda Good.” Featured in Forbes, on Food Network and ABC, she writes about Southern, coastal cuisine, locally sourced and in-season. Connect with her on social media by liking Some Kinda Good on Facebook, or follow @SKGFoodBlog on Instagram and Twitter. To learn more, visit RebekahLingenfelser.com.

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'Herb Alpert Is...': Film Review - Hollywood Reporter

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John Scheinfeld's documentary chronicles the life and career of the legendary chart-topping trumpeter.

"Herb Alpert is…butter!" declares Billy Bob Thornton in John Scheinfeld's film about the legendary musician and record producer. It's one of but many paeans to the trumpeter in this documentary about Alpert's life and career that is more comprehensive than probing. The general tone is made clear in a director's note in which Scheinfeld (Chasing Trane, The U.S. vs. John Lennon) says that he wanted to "make a film that would celebrate a creative and influential life well lived in a way that would uplift, inspire and bring the audience together the way that Herb's music and philanthropy had done for decades." He's certainly succeeded in that goal with this effort, which should well please Alpert's legions of fans and make him some new ones. And needless to say, Herb Alpert Is… has a hell of a terrific soundtrack.

If you're a certain age, just hearing the opening notes of such classic hits as "Spanish Flea," "Mexican Shuffle," "A Taste of Honey," "Lonely Bull," "Whipped Cream" and "Tijuana Taxi," among many others, will bring a goofy smile to your face. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, who sold more albums than the Beatles in 1965 and 1966, made the sort of feel-good music that is impossible to resist. No less an authority than Questlove, one of many notables interviewed in the film, comments, "It's the happiest music in existence."

The film, featuring extensive commentary by the now 85-year-old (but still going strong) Alpert, recounts the story of a life that, unlike that of many of his musical contemporaries, doesn't really contain much high drama. Sure, he went through a period of depression; he says that at one point he realized, "I'm famous, I'm rich, but I'm miserable." And he endured a two-year stretch starting in 1969 when, for some reason, he found himself unable to produce any sounds on his trumpet. But overall, he's enjoyed tremendous success, selling some 72 million records during his decades-long career, and he's been happily married to his second wife, Lani Hall, for 46 years.

We see Alpert revisiting his old elementary school and childhood home, and hear how he began playing the trumpet in school and immediately displayed a talent for it. He and two friends formed a trio, won a TV talent competition and were soon playing weddings and bar-mitzvahs. When he began his professional musical career he found almost instant success, co-writing the hit song "(What A) Wonderful World" with his partner Lou Adler and singer Sam Cooke. In 1962, Alpert co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss; within a decade, it had become the world's largest independent record company, with a roster including the Carpenters, Quincy Jones, Cat Stevens, Joe Cocker, Janet Jackson, Supertramp, Carole King and many others.

But it was when Alpert formed the Tijuana Brass in 1962 that he hit the top of the charts as a performer. Inspired by a visit to a bullfight in Tijuana, Mexico, he wrote "The Lonely Bull," incorporating mariachi sounds into the easy-listening music that instantly captured the public's fancy and resulted in a series of hit albums and singles. In the documentary, Alpert recalls how Miles Davis once said, "You hear three notes, you know it's Herb Alpert."

"I could kiss him for that line," Alpert says.

Alpert would later go on to have tremendous success with his solo career, including the 1979 hit "Rise," one of only two instrumental songs to top the charts in the last forty years. In the last few decades, he's also established himself as an acclaimed abstract painter and sculptor, and become a major philanthropist.

All these achievements and more are chronicled at length in the film, as well as his marriage to Hall, formerly a singer with Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66. Their relationship is the subject of a gushy segment in which they speak dreamily of each other and featuring enough loving photographs to fill a wedding anniversary album.

It's hard not to wish that the documentary had delved a little more deeply into its subject, who comes across throughout as affable and down-to-earth as he's described by a series of talking heads including Bill Moyers, Sting, Paul Williams, Quincy Jones, Richard Carpenter and many others. In any case, you'll probably come away from Herb Alpert Is… not only admiring the man but wishing you were him.

Available in theaters and VOD
Distributor: Abramorama
Director/screenwriter: John Scheinfeld
Producers: John Scheinfeld, Dave Harding, Peter S. Lynch II
Director of photography: Tristan Whitman
Editor: Peter S. Lynch II

113 min.

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Herb Alpert on new documentary, Janet Jackson, The Police and disdain for Trump - cleveland.com

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – In the new documentary “Herb Alpert Is…” numerous music legends, moguls and movie stars are asked to describe what Alpert means to them. Questlove, Sting, Carole King, Quincy Jones and others are happy to answer. But we couldn’t wait to ask the man himself.

Alpert obliged in our latest episode of CLE Rocks. But it was only the beginning. Alpert also talked about co-founding A&M Records, helping launch the careers of Janet Jackson and The Police, having his hit “Rise” sampled by The Notorious B.I.G., and what it was like being at the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony in 1986.

Listen here.

We promise the answers to some of our questions will surprise, if not shock you. Alpert also couldn’t resist sharing his thoughts on President Donald Trump (He did not hold back).

Do yourself a favor and check out the premiere of “Herb Alpert Is…” streaming on the documentary’s website on Thursday, Oct. 1. It comes with a career-spanning boxset due out the following day.

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HERB BENHAM: Stop, look and listen - The Bakersfield Californian

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A friend sent this email:

“A while back you mentioned you might be willing to read my friend Randolph's book. I like it a lot but I'm close to the author and the subject matter. I also may be one of the characters!

“He's sent it to a few people and has gotten virtually no feedback. He's in that vulnerable artist space where he put his heart and soul into this thing that is now just sitting on his hard drive. If you have the time and inclination, I've attached a PDF to this email.

“No pressure. You're a busy vulnerable artist yourself ..."

“Busy,” “vulnerable” “artist?” Tell me more. I was looking for a lift and I’d found one and it wasn’t important that the lift be grounded in reality, because it sounded good enough to suspend reason, regardless of evidence to the contrary.

“Absolutely. I’d be happy to.”

I was lying. I was sort of lying. I was sort of not telling the truth because although I believe that occasionally “the truth will set you free,” sometimes the truth will break your creative heart and spirit and make you want to curl up in a ball and roll down a long hill whose bottom you cannot see.

I believe this. There is something brave, wonderful and life-embracing (agonizing too) about putting yourself out there with no clear plan on how you might reach an audience.

You have this great idea for a novel so you sit down and spend the next two years (nights, if you have a day job) of your life writing 151 pages. It takes everything you have, your heart, your soul, your free time and finally you finish.

Finish and think, "I’ve done something, have something, want to give people something that they will find compelling and be unable to put down once they start reading.”

You start with your friends, people who you thought were your friends, people who ignore you and who are no longer your friends because they are too busy doing whatever the heck they are doing and even if it’s making living or raising kids, it doesn’t count because this is you and your crowning moment of creative achievement.

The truth dawns on you: Nobody cares, nobody wants to read it and nobody will mourn if you get swallowed by the black slime that comes in nightly from the swamp of heartache and broken dreams.

I felt bad for the guy so I started reading. I’m on Page 85 and it’s pretty good. I can see the characters, I can feel the misery of being an associate in a big law firm and he paints a clear picture of what it’s like to live in a bad apartment in San Diego when your parents have a place in Del Mar with what seemed like very little sweat.

The lead character is trying to figure it out, something we’re all trying to do. The book could use a sense of humor, some lightness and hope (sadness is OK too as long it leads to a good, cleansing cry), because people are generally not looking to go down the rabbit hole and keep going.

I give him credit. He’s giving it a whirl and here is often the thing about people who are giving it a whirl. There are some really good moments in it including this description of a woman who has had plastic surgery:

“Her hair was an even Marilyn Monroe bleach. Is there only one plastic surgeon in all of California? Henry thought. Did that surgeon create the same nose, same lips, same eyes on every woman regardless of what they wanted?”

Some of the best music you’ll ever hear will neither make the top 10 nor make the artist a dime but when you hear it, you think, this is great and my life is better for having heard it.

Art is worth doing, sacrificing for and spending inordinate amounts of time on.

It’s probably underpaid but not underappreciated by those who believe that art can come from anywhere and anybody.

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Former Council President running for Supervisor—call him 'Herb' - Larchmont Chronicle

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HERB WESSON

Former City Council President Herb Wesson couldn’t agree more with his opponent, he says. What distinguishes them is style. And, he adds, experience.

“I’m an action, in-the-community, frontline kind of a person. And I think that’s what this community wants, needs and deserves… Somebody that is not afraid to roll up his sleeves and get the job done.”

Within days of learning of COVID-19, he turned his office into a community hub, delivering food and dispensing face coverings, hand sanitizers, diapers and pet food. And he partnered with senior residential facilities to provide coronavirus testing.

“When COVID hit, I didn’t retreat, I attacked…. I’m a kind of in–your-face, don’t care about titles, call me Herb…,” he told us last month on Zoom.

As for experience, he’ll let his record speak for itself: Six years working for the county, six more when elected to the California State Assembly (two years as Speaker) and 15 years on the Los Angeles City Council, the last eight of which he was president.
“I am optimistic that, at the end of the day, they’ll go with the little fella.”

Termed out of his 10th District City Council seat, Wesson is facing state Sen. Holly Mitchell in the runoff election for the Second District on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

As City Council president, Wesson created a Homelessness and Poverty Committee, and more recently supported boosting the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. (He also helped create the single-use plastic bag policy and straws-on-request ordinance.)

In his district, several homeless facilities have opened, are opening or are under construction. “I think without a doubt we’re doing our share,” he said.

He helped pave the way for Proposition HHH, a $1.2 billion bond that is paying for much of the permanent housing construction underway.

“The major flaw,” he acknowledged, “is the mindset you could build yourself out of this problem….

“We’ve taken a lot of people off the street and put them in housing, but it doesn’t help you if you take 10 people off and replace them with 12.”

Closing the spigot

“If we build affordable housing, then we might have a chance to get in front of this,” along with “rental assistance, landlord aid, small business support — it’s all part of the equation and will be more important than ever going forward — in light of the effects and after-effects of COVID-19. “I’m not just the guy on the street picking up the trash and delivering [food], but also on the council one of the first cities to put in place protection for renters… support landlords… and grants for small businesses.”

A Cleveland native, the 68-year-old is married and has four adult children.

“I believe the two most important days in anybody’s life are the day you’re born and the day you discover why you were born.

“I was put on this earth to help people, be it as a councilman, be it as a Speaker of the Assembly, be it as a youth football coach, which is where I started my public service in this community.”

“I know how to bring people together. I know how to lead, and I know how to get things done.”

A foray for a few years as a stand-up comic taught him pubic speaking skills, which would later prove invaluable as Speaker of the Assembly from 2002 to 2004.

He had been chief of staff to former Los Angeles City Councilmember Nate Holden, a position he also once served for Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Burke. His campaign is endorsed by Mayor Eric Garcetti, Rep. Maxine Waters and a host of labor groups, including the teamsters and police.

Besides discrepancies in the health system among people of color, recent protests and demonstrations countrywide highlight issues within the criminal justice system, Wesson noted.

The police are not the problem, he stressed. It’s the system, which sends police to handle mental health and drug problems.

“My effort is to help reform the various systems that don’t provide opportunities equally.

“With the entire country paying attention… I view this as the greatest opportunity for change in this country.

“Being a black guy. Being a black elected official for many years, it’s not always easy to go out and make these huge strides forward. Sometimes what we have to do is, whenever there’s an opening, we’ve gotta take advantage of that opening to move things forward…

“To miss this moment would be a crime, to miss an opportunity to create a world where my grandkids could grow up and not have to deal with a lot of the crap in life that I’ve had to deal with… I can’t miss this moment.

If elected as one of five County Supervisors, Wesson will help oversee services that includes homeless and mental health.

Wesson knows first hand about cracks in the social system. His eldest of four sons is bi-polar; he was “chronically” homeless and suffered with a drug addiction for years.

“He’s sober 11 months,” Wesson says proudly.

What changed was that someone, or many persons, cared.

That is why creating a social network to help people get on their feet is so critical to him, he emphasizes.

He’s also passionate about his neighborhood, and all of our neighborhoods, and has fought Sacramento ardently on several housing bills that aim to rezone single-family neighborhoods statewide.

“If I was in Sacramento I would see the city of L.A. as somebody you could partner with… I think together we could find a way to do that. They don’t dialogue with us.

“This is an emotional issue for me. We’re talking about destroying the residential areas of our community.” He is a longtime Leimert Park resident. “It’s our Larchmont,” he says of the historic neighborhood that is having a resurgence.

If passed, these bills “will fast-track gentrification… people in our areas could lose their homes, and a Wall Street developer moves in and within a matter of months the integrity of my neighborhood is just erased.”

“It’s an issue worth fighting for… I will always be the push back on this, so we can maintain the residential neighborhoods. We have our issues, but this is a city we all love.”

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Herb Alpert Documentary Showing at Sunrise Virtual Theater - Southern Pines Pilot

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The Sunrise Virtual Theater is now showing the new documentary “Herb Alpert Is …,” which profiles the artist, now 85, mostly from the perspective of colleagues like Questlove, Sting and Bill Moyers. In their words, the shy, unassuming trumpeter is a musical, artistic and philanthropic heavyweight.

Herb Alpert was a shy third-grader when his music appreciation teacher arranged instruments on a table and encouraged her students to experiment. The 8-year-old picked up a trumpet and effectively found his voice.

In 1962 he co-founded the indie label, A and M Records with business partner, Jerry Moss, which introduced artists as varied as Carole King, Cat Stevens, The Carpenters, Janet Jackson, Peter Frampton, Joe Cocker, Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendes and The Police. A and M would go on to become one of the most successful independent labels in history.

In 1966, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass outsold the Beatles two to one. Between 1966 and 2014, the musician, who wed Dixieland and mariachi styles with jazz and pop, won nine Grammys, a testament to his virtuosity and enduring appeal.

In 2012 he received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. His work as an abstract painter and sculptor has been shown worldwide. Through the Herb Alpert Foundation, he has given significant philanthropic support of educational programs in the arts nationwide, from the Harlem School of the Arts and Los Angeles City College to CalArts and UCLA.

The documentary will be available for streaming through the Sunrise Virtual Theater from Oct. 2-22. Group/family viewing tickets are $12 for a three-day pass. Visit www.SunriseTheater.com to access the film so that a portion of the ticket price will support the Sunrise Theater.

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‘Herb Alpert Is . . .’ documentary offers Tijuana Brass and other delights - The Boston Globe

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No sensible history of the ’60s would begin with Herb Alpert, but any that’s worth reading needs to include him. Yes, that Herb Alpert: as in the Tijuana Brass, “Whipped Cream & Other Delights,” mariachi-meets-mohair. How less ’60s can you get? The Beatles the Brass were not. Except . . .

“We’re more popular than Jesus,” John Lennon said in 1966. So what did that make the Brass? They sold over 13 million records that year, more than the Beatles did (and, ahem, the Brass cover of “A Taste of Honey” — that kick drum! — makes the Beatles version sound waxen). Fourteen Tijuana Brass LPs went platinum during the ’60s. Like the Ford Mustang and Kodak Instamatic and NASA, Alpert and his band aren’t part of the decade as remembered, the canonical ’60s. What they were was the decade as experienced, the workaday ’60s.

Herb Alpert on tour with the Tijuana Brass.Abramorama

Herb Alpert’s music tapped into the dreams of more people than the Summer of Love or Woodstock did. True, that music was as authentic as a Tang-topped burrito (speaking of NASA). But it sure was infectious. It still is. As Questlove somewhat sheepishly says in John Scheinfeld’s documentary “Herb Alpert Is . . .,” "It’s the happiest music in existence. If I feel down or whatever, I have a Herb Alpert mix and that sort of brightens my —” he starts to laugh, realizing what he’s about to publicly admit “— I feel silly saying [this], but . . . it makes me happy.”

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The ellipsis in the film’s title is meant to remind us how much more Alpert — still sprightly and performing at 85 — has on his resume than just “Tijuana Taxi” and “Mexican Shuffle." He helped compose Sam Cooke’s “Wonderful World.” Is there a simpler, sweeter love song? He’s had number one hits on his own, as singer (“This Guy’s in Love With You,” 1968), and trumpeter (“Rise,” 1979), making him the only artist to have done that as both vocalist and instrumentalist.

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Herb Alpert at the wheel of an A&M Records van. He was the "A" in A&M.Abramorama

Alpert is the "A" in A&M Records, the biggest independent label in the industry — until he and Jerry Moss, the “M,” sold it to Polygram, in 1989, for $500 million. The range of artists A&M recorded is jaw-dropping: the Brass, of course, but also the Carpenters, Cheech & Chong, Peter Frampton, Quincy Jones, the Police, Squeeze, Janet Jackson. Richard Carpenter, Jones, and Sting are among those heard in the documentary singing Alpert’s praises.

That Polygram payday (which would be worth slightly more than $1 billion today) has helped underwrite Alpert’s most important accomplishment, as a philanthropist who’s given tens of millions to fund education and the arts. Speaking of arts, Alpert’s also a painter and sculptor, though the amount of attention his artwork gets in the documentary may be, let us say, disproportionate to its aesthetic impact.

The documentary begins with its subject painting and, a nice touch, uses brushstrokes as a transitional device between scenes. Alpert goes in for big, colorful abstract canvases. It’s a very different style from his understated, slightly aloof, trumpet playing. He’s never been a virtuoso, but virtuosity was never the point. “It’s all about feel," Alpert says Sam Cooke taught him. "That’s all there is.”

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Appropriately, “Herb Alpert Is . . .” has a nice feel of its own. The first two-thirds is lively in pace, all of it is amiable in tone and sun-splashed in appearance. The final half hour gets a bit gushy. It’s mostly devoted to Alpert’s blissful second marriage, to singer Lani Hall — they’ve been married nearly 50 years — and his philanthropic largess. But since there’s a lot to gush about, that’s okay.

Herb Alpert framed by two of his sculptures.Dewey Nicks/Abramorama

★★1/2

HERB ALPERT IS . . .

Written and directed by: John Scheinfeld. Available for streaming via Regent Theatre, Arlington, at www.regenttheatre.com/details/herb_alpert_is and as video on demand. 113 minutes. Unrated (as PG-13: a few casual obscenities, some wink-wink, nudge-nudge reminiscences about that “Whipped Cream” cover).

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Mark Feeney can be reached at mark.feeney@globe.com.

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