Inside Butterball’s plight to save the holiday — and its business — Rebecca Welch remembers all too well the Thanksgiving Day she pulled the turkey out of the refrigerator to prep it for the oven and, with a crowd of in-laws standing around watching, realized it was still frozen solid. “I tried to remember everything I knew about thawing, but I was…

The $32 billion company was known as an icon of manufacturing innovation. Then came the mask shortage—and Trump. — On the evening of April 2, some two weeks into America’s full-blown Covid crisis, President Donald Trump fired off a tweet to his more than 80 million followers: We hit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their masks… Big surprise to many in government as to…

The Canadian e-commerce company is breathing down Silicon Valley’s neck as the next great enterprise behemoth — In late March, 15,000 gallons of beer were sloshing around in Peter Bulut’s tanks and barrels with nowhere to go. Bulut, the owner of Great Lakes Brewing Co., first started working in his father’s tiny craft brewery in Toronto almost 30 years ago, when he was 21. Since taking over…

How King Arthur Flour found itself in the unlikely crosshairs of a pandemic — Baking bread was a regular family affair in Linda Ely’s childhood home, leaving her with a lifelong bread-baking habit and some powerful memories. “I think of my family every single time I bake,” she says. Ely has been able to pay some of that gift forward to the thousands of…

It can be a powerful medical tool — especially now — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions might be at higher risk for severe illness from Covid-19.” …

What to do when you feel that first throat tingle — Getting those first signs of a cold? You’re probably wondering if it might be worth taking some form of vitamin C, or trusting a handful of other remedies touted as helping to nip a cold in the bud, such as working up a big sweat at the gym or taking…

Can Tesla and Rivian convince practical Ford-loving pickup drivers to buy their futuristic machismo machines? — It just doesn’t make sense to buy a car, to hear Mike Canada tell it. “You gotta have a truck,” says the expansively bearded 64-year-old who owns a cluttered, sprawling antique and collectibles shop on the outskirts of Houston. “Cars can only get passengers from point A to B. Trucks…

The research is weak and misleading, yet dentists are adamant. So where does that leave us? — Three years ago, the Associated Press published an article that appeared to discredit something most of us are told twice a year by our dentists. The article looked at 25 studies on flossing and determined they pretty much all failed to find solid scientific evidence that flossing provides any benefits…

From paging a doctor to radioing one on the ground, airlines have ways of coping with illness. But none of them are ideal. — It was a moment straight out of a movie. Cyrus Komer, MD, was flying on Delta Airlines from Boston to Vancouver, Canada, on a ski vacation, when a flight attendant asked a question over the PA system: “Is there a doctor onboard?” Komer, a physician specializing in internal medicine, who…