Roasted Loin of Pork with Garlic & Rosemary

So: Food of a younger land = an anthology of essays, poems and the like from the New Deal's WPA. If you've never heard of WPA, look it up. What an amazing idea and it boggles the mind that any U.S. president was able to make it work. I know it would be a worthwhile project in the ole U.S. right now particularly as LOTS of people are out of work, but no politician is going to approve of money for a writer to write an article about local produce or a painter to create a painting. Americans seem to traditionally disapprove of setting aside money for the arts. I suppose it would be too much to ask for support for unemployed who may figure out teleportation or be the next Edward Hopper. We need an artistic revival, a Renaissance of some sort. It's stifling to live here right now. To quote the Joker, 'this town needs an enema'.
Anyway, the book's broken up into U.S. regions and some of the writings are quite amusing. It would be a good "bathroom book" for a person interested in US regional food history and traditions.
Still haven't decided whether or not to buy the mastering knife skills book. I'm leaning towards yes but must save a little money for it.
In the interim, I'm reading another Kurlansky book "Salt: A World History" sounds lame right? It's interesting, and it's exactly what the title says. It's a well written history of humans and our dependence on/uses of/wars fought over salt.
I'm also reading some fantasy type book that has all the major ingredients for this genre: The Mage (sometimes a babe and most times a healer), The Warrior, The Elf (sometimes a princess), The Evil Badguy (which is redundant I guess...).

Two things for you to know:
'Archer' is on FX channel thursdays 10:30 EST- watch it and piss yourself laughing.

I made a killer roast on Sunday.

Kill Her.

Ingredients
1 pork loin or half of one... mine was about 3 lbs
6 large garlic cloves
3 rosemary 6" twigs
salt
pepper
1 large onion
2 large potatoes
2 Tbspn olive oil

Ready your baking pan/oven
1. Pre-heat oven to 375
2. slice each garlic clove in half and place in baking pan so meat will sit on top of garlic
3. put 2 twigs of rosemary with the garlic

Wash your pig
1. rinse off loin (hahhaha loins)
2. pat dry on both sides

Rub your hog heh heh heh
1. sprinkle salt and pepper over whole pork loin
2. rub it in

Brown your swine
1. heat 2 tbspn olive oil in a large pan
2. Sear each side of the pork loin (about 2 mins on each side)

Ready for baking?
1. place pork loin on top of garlic cloves/rosemary twigs
2. chop up the last rosemary twig and sprinkle on top of pork
3. roughly chop your onion and place into baking dish on top of and around the pork
4. roughly chop tatos and place around the pork loin
5. Pour any liquid from the browning pan over the pork
6. Loosely cover the pork with Al foil and poke a steam hole in the top of foil
7. Bake for about 60 minutes or until internal temp reaches 160F
8. Remove pan from oven and let rest for 10 minutes