I was tired, scrolling Instagram at my desk in London, when I noticed Hannah Neeleman wasn't in her usual spot.

In the video posted in February, the "tradwife," known online as Ballerina Farm, was kneading sourdough focaccia in a cottage I didn't recognize. In the next reel, she frolicked down a rainy country path.

I'm among the hundreds of millions of people who have watched the 35-year-old making everything from mozzarella to lemon meringue pie from scratch in her rustic Utah farmhouse kitchen while tending to her eight young children. This was the first time I'd seen her in a different setting.

A caption told me she was at Ireland's prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School, where she and her husband, the son of JetBlue’s founder, were reported to be taking a famed three-month intensive

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