People are scooping up the dish, typically made from pureed meat such as chicken or, in the case of the French delicacy foie gras ... forward ingredients like mushrooms. Pâté’s latest rise ...

By Ari Daniel Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany, has been in love with foie gras for a quarter century. The luxurious delicacy is a pâté ...