20 Excellent Moments From a Year of Grub Street Diets

Illustration: Adam Mazur, Maanvi Kapur, Sarah Kilcoyne

What makes a great Grub Street Diet? Even after 18-plus years, there’s no one formula, and every year brings new departures. In 2024, we followed Jeff VanderMeer as he escaped a natural disaster and Tony Tulathimutte as he consumed an alarming number of foods “as a joke.” We spent a few days in Milwaukee with Dan Kois and another couple of days in Amsterdam with Michelle Collins. Emily Nussbaum worked out some inherited female food pathologies...