you are our new dishwasher. and i said, oh, really. and the next day i put on the apron and didn t take it off for thirty years. i d wake up, all of us go to the beach. hang out on the beach until like 2 o clock. john: yeah, it was fun. anthony: roll into work. work all night. drinking, getting high, drilling out food. you got all the food you wanted. all the liquor you wanted. john: all the sex you wanted. anthony: all the sex you wanted. john: it was true, it was fun. we had a great time. anthony: and yet you still were an essential part of the economy. john: it was a lot of fun, believe me, i remember. anthony: the flagship, it s where my cooking career started. where i started washing dishes, where i started have pretensions of culinary grandeur. john: it would seem like a good gig for anybody. anthony: who else got to live like that during that time? you had to be in a band, here we were we were dishwashers. john: yeah, you get older and get a little more s
my friends worked in the kitchen here, starting the tradition among my set that cooking work was noble toil. at that point i never intended a career as a chef. john: it s great to be a cook. anthony: i was getting to that. yes. server: this is homemade portuguese kale soup, made on the premises. anthony: it s been a long time, thank you. server: enjoy. anthony: portuguese soup, a p-town version the azorean caldo verde and just what i remembered. kale, fiery red chorizo, linguica, kidney beans, potatoes. oh, i missed you. i missed you bad. and that was precisely what i loved about the food here. the portuguese thing, dishes like this stuffed cod crusted with ground portuguese sausage, bread crumbs, stuffed with scallop and crab. some sherry, red sauce. i hadn t been working for a while, i was a deadbeat. i mean, i was just, just scarfing off everybody else. and nancy comes home from work and says our dishwasher didn t show up today.
actually took care of you. they built and provided homes for their employees. schools. the river provided energy. the company provided nearly everything else. ed: the heyday is gone. people are definitely struggling to find work. the down just kind of died during the 80s. when the folks came to work, they were immigrants anthony: attracted by the manufacturing here. ed: correct. made it a possibility of owning a home in a real decent part of the county here. ed: so my father was here, a millwright, a millwright s job is a jack of all trades if you will. if there was something that needed to be repaired. anthony: you could work in a mill and live in a nice home, send your kids to school, make a living all on a mill salary. ed: you bet. anthony: it s unthinkable now almost. what happened to the business? ed: things are going to other countries, but not coming back to the united states.
significant ways. back then, heroin was mostly seen as a poor people problem, somebody else s problem. the sort of thing that musicians and criminals got into. marginal people, far from the white main streets of mayberry, usa. what those people did to themselves, well, it was unfortunate, but not our problem. until somebody broke into your house. today, it s absolutely the reverse. the new addicts are almost entirely white, middle class, and from towns and areas like this. how do you think you make it better? carmen: you don t. anthony: whoa. you don t? carmen: no, there s going to be more robberies, there s going to be more killings. take one person off the street here, two more come in. anthony: at peak how many customers do you have? carmen: probably all of greenfield. anthony: what happened? how did the kid next door, along with mom, pop, and grandma too become users of hard-core
any car? a place to live, all that stuff? seems less and less likely all the time. contrast that with what happens when you stick a spike in your arm. and why wouldn t you? woman: so i had this picture in my head when i got the phone call that my daughter s father had been in the accident and i had just had a c-section and they come in with this needle to give me adavan i think. and all i really needed was a hug. i just needed someone to come up to me and give me a hug and say, i care about you, kaitlyn, and everything s going to be okay. anthony: i ll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up, i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. i came up with a stable family in the suburbs. i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark genie inside me that i very much hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn t have anyone else who