Plated Traditions, LLC

Plated Traditions, LLC Plated Traditions wants to encourage the preservation of legacies through tradition and food.

09/15/2026

Today's National Online Learning Day

Given the right opportunity and decision there's so many ways to learn online.

Plated Traditions tries to do this randomly.

No. We're not Le Cordon Bleu level but I still wanted to give a go.

So I made a slightly more structured platform of learning via Plated Traditions.

I have a Plated Traditions Recipe Journal Online Course. It's completely FREE. All you have to do is go to the following link to sign up for a FREE account and use my link to direct you to my FREE course:

https://plated-traditions.teachable.com/p/plated-traditions-recipe-journal-course

***Note that you must have a Teachable account to access the course. Teachable accounts are available for FREE.

09/05/2026

This Labor Day Weekend you can get the Plated Traditions Music Mix CD or Vinyl for 20% Off.πŸ‘‡

https://elasticstage.com/platedtraditionsmusicmix πŸ‘ˆ

All thanks to Elasticstage having a special site wide sale.

Just use code: LABORDAY

Offer expires 9/7/2026 @ 11:59 PM PT Time

09/04/2026

As a child I was really taken aback by Booker T. Washington Versus W.E.B Du Bois.

In its simplest explanation it was a debate on the importance of having a primary focus on manual labor or a primary focus on education.

Washington = Labor
Du Bois = Education

The pedant in me says that learning is involved in both.

Metaphorically speaking, learning is just a rose 🌹 by any other name to me.

The genetics of the elders that form my very existence says "You'll do both" 🫡

So off I went traveling along both paths. In doing so I didn't necessarily find a fork in the road.

Instead labor and education brought about experiences that crossed paths, created venn diagrams, and even formed full circles in my life.

For example: In basic society it's presumed that:
Housekeeper = High School 🏫 dropout.

In my reality:
College πŸŽ“ = Janitor

In 2013 I was laid off from a janitor job. I thought that experience would clinch my getting a job as one again.

No.

If I didn't Substitute Teach for the Richmond Public School System I may have not gotten my current job as a janitor.

In the interview I was told that she was more interested in the fact that I had experience working in an environment with school aged children.

Now to become a substitute teacher you need an Associate Degree worth of college credits.

College πŸŽ“ = Substitute Teacher = Experience With Children = Janitor.

I remember this well because I left that off my resume because I had to devalue my educational experiences for these job types because they saw my education as a flight risk.

So instead of giving me a chance to work.

I needed to work. It was nearly a year of unemployment.

1 Year Of Unemployment = 200+ Sent Job Applications and/or Resumes.

200+ Sent Job Applications and/or Resumes = 200+ Job Denials For Too Much Education and/or Too Little Specific Job Experience.

If I didn't hesitantly speak up about having a education required job back in 2014.

I wouldn't be coming up on my 12 year work anniversary on my current job.

Education or Labor?

Both have uncertain paths
Both require time
Both require hard work
Both require learning skills

Neither have results that are revealed before the journey.

So no matter how you make ends meet.

This Labor Day pat yourself for making it through as best you can.

08/28/2026

August is National Water Quality Month

Because of its perceive abundance, clear appearance, and tasteless flavor profile, water easily becomes one of the most overlooked items on this earth 🌎.

To our species basic knowledge most all living things are made up of water. Everything on this Earth needs water to survive.

This is why you will find all these random organizations being concerned about it's quantity and quality.

It's not a scare tactic.

Whether you have good or questionable habits and cravings in life you had better believe that 99% of the time Water πŸ’¦πŸŒŠ was needed to make it so.

This post isn't about the blame game either.

Our species has nothing to do with the original creation of water.

Just every now and again give a thought to a habit involving water on an individual level.

Being that I'm a janitor I have this naive notion that there's usually trash bins everywhere.

So something as small as making sure that your trash ends up in one of those instead of a water supply could help a lot of if we as individuals just try.

What about repurposing questionable water bottles?

I used to come across so many opened water bottles that I would empty them in my mop bucket. I add a viricide to it anyway and the job gets done with less waste.

It's not about being perfect. Just be mindful where you can.

Our future and traditions depend greatly on it.

08/25/2026

In A Few Hours It's Going To Be National Women's Equality Day & We're Still In International Peace Month.

Peace πŸ•ŠοΈ, Equality 🟰 & Freedom πŸ†“ all go hand and hand.

To experience Peace πŸ•ŠοΈ you must be Free πŸ†“ from wrongdoings and oppression.

To experience Peace πŸ•ŠοΈ you must feel a since of Equality 🟰 where you are not denied basic human rights.

Peace πŸ•ŠοΈ, Equality 🟰 & Freedom πŸ†“ are Not color spectrums.

People from all walks of life in our species have fought and are still fighting for the freedom to be equally accepted as an indispensable life form.

August is also National Black Business Month.

However, if the women of history did not fight, struggle and even die for women's equality . . .

National Black Business Month would mean nothing to me today.

It wasn't a perfect system but black men were written into law as having more rights before any color of woman.

As the video references women still had to work hard. Do the "woman's work" and the "men's work" with little to no pay, input or acknowledgement.

To make that become law was a very hard fight.

It still is today.

As law doesn't promise practice or universal agreement within the masses. It just tells them that it will be illegal to participate in acts of violence and inequality.

The last part of the video might seem random but I have my reasons.

First thing first if I had a perfect life I would admit it. Gladly 😁

As it stands now it's average and still riddled with same basic societal assumptions and demands.

C'est la vie 🀷

That last part demonstrates a time where a man was questioned about his marital status.

He was a single, blue-collared man and not interested in dating. People laughed at his response and after that day no one judged or questioned him any further on the topic.

As a blue-collared woman I was not as lucky. I was questioned and targeted for not showing any interest in marriage or having children.

The response was not equal.

Admittedly, I did laugh at the man's response too and had fun writing about it.

However, there is an inescapable message in the memory.

Not matter who it represents don't take your Equality and Freedoms for granted.

History has been very clear on the fact that Peace πŸ•ŠοΈ, Freedom πŸ†“ and Equality 🟰 has been very difficult to obtain.

As we still beg for Peace πŸ•ŠοΈ amongst ourselves (homo sapiens) for hundreds of thousands of years.

I've heard for many years that people are tired of traditions.

πŸ€”What if, in this time period of our species . . .

We could finally make Positive Equality and Peace πŸ•ŠοΈ an obtainable and widely practiced tradition?πŸ€”

I mean we've been around now for about 300,000 years now.

It may be time for it now.

08/16/2026

We're In The Middle National Sandwich πŸ₯ͺ MonthπŸ™‚

08/11/2026

It's National Vinyl Record Day in just a few hours

No matter your taste in music or food . . .

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🎢Happy Listening 🎧🎢


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