Wedding-Style Fish or Shrimp

At Parsi wedding banquets, fish is the first thing to be brought around in deep round trays, one man holding, the other serving it onto the waiting banana leaves. It can be patra ni machhi, fish wrapped in banana leaves, but more often it’s pieces of pomfret in a sweet-and-sour cream sauce made with eggs and vinegar, barely cooked cherry tomatoes dotting the top. There’s no part of a pomfret that isn’t good, so the servers seem entitled to mutter ab