16-Oversized Eating Utensils

Oak Alley was a very special plantation. Our paddle wheel tied up at the levee and we came down the gangway in awe! The most fantastic scene emerged with twelve Virginia Oaks on the right, twelve on the left. They stood as sentinels leading us up to the main house. It was breathtaking!
This is a Cajun plantation. Built below Baton Rouge, it's Catholic owners grew sugarcane. Above Baton Rouge, the Scottish Protestant owners grew cotton. Cajun owners were small, barely 5'4". Women were under 5'. But they had oversized eating utensils. That was how they announced their prosperity to the neighborhood.
I was intrigued by a mirror at one end of the parlor. It was a fish-eye, any seat in the room saw the entire room. It's name...the Chaperone Mirror!