Buy a Rotisserie Chicken Tonight

Good morning. It would take you a long time to find someone dumber at business than me. But rotisserie chickens seem like a pretty good play, I think, at least if you could find good birds to spin and the right wood-burning stove on which to spin them. Salt, pepper, a secret basting sauce, maybe…

Pfizer Is to Merge Off-Patent Drug Unit With Mylan

Pfizer agreed on Monday to combine its off-patent drugs division, which controls treatments like the statin Lipitor, with the pharmaceutical company Mylan, creating a potential powerhouse in the business of medicines without patent protections. The transaction comes as falling prices increase pressure on generic drugmakers, a development that has been mostly overlooked in the United…

Shopping for Pitchers

Pitchers can be useful all year long — for holding juice on a breakfast buffet or keeping water handy at the dinner table — but they really come into their own in the summer, for outdoor entertaining. Because “who wants to go back and forth to the kitchen to get water?” asked Young Huh, an…