Culture | Honey, will you be home for dinner?

#Tradwives, the real housewives of the internet, have gone viral

Why social-media users are riveted by the domestic toil of homemakers

Stills from videos showing Hannah Neeleman making food and milking a cow. — You may not want to try this at homePhotograph: ballerinafarm

May 15th 2024

HOW LONG does it take to make a grilled-cheese sandwich? The answer, for most, is about ten minutes. But for Hannah Neeleman, a housewife-turned-social-media-star, the process can take days. Ms Neeleman (pictured) makes everything from scratch: milling her own flour and milking cows. Then she performs a fiddly routine of stirring and simmering. Finally, exhausted, she stuffs homemade cheese into freshly baked bread and tells her eight children to tuck in.

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