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I've been reading The Best Food Writing of 2007. It is really great. It has some recipes, some reviews of restaurants, and some general food topics. Something for every foodie.

I just have to add: Lately I've been completely obsessed with Calvin Trillin. I don't know how I didn't name him first! I just read Feeding a Yen, which was superb. Read his stuff; there's lots of it!
Churchka is right on with The Best of Food Writing. Another good collection of essays is Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant.

michael ruhlman's other books, the making of a chef and the reach of a chef, are also highly entertaining, especially the making of a chef, which was an account of his time spent at the culinary institute.

laurie colwin, laurie colwin, laurie colwin! her food essays are so wonderful, i've been reading them for over 20 years and never get tired of them.

you also can't go wrong with john thorne. i also loved toast, by nigel slater, and all of colette rossant's memoirs.

Anything by Elizabeth David

Food in History by Reay Tannahill

American Food by Evan Jones

Auberge of the Flowering Hearth by Roy Andries de Groot

The Decadent Cookbook by Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray

I just finished Julia Child's "My Life In France" and I absolutely loved it. Julia's love for cooking and her overall joie de vivre really jump off the pages, and I was just so happy when I was reading it. It's wonderful :) (And it also provides the story of how she wrote her groundbreaking cookbook and how she became the first TV chef!)

raspberry eggplant

The United States of Arugula by David Kamp is quite interesting - particularly if you're interested in the gourmet movement in the United States

I can certainly support MFK Fisher as a suggestion. Or Elizabeth David

I've read Laurie Colwin's two books at least three times each and John Thorne is a fun read. Beard on Food is a way to learn while you're entertained and a lovely writer - Angelo Pellegrino - had some of his newspaper columns reprinted in book form. Beautiful prose!

A fun read is Dining with Headhunters by Richard Sterling and you'll be reminded of your grandmom if you choose any of Gladys Taber's books about Stillmeadow and her cottage on Cape Cod.

The apprentice by Jacques Pepin will convince you that your life was pretty smooth compared to his.

Larousse Gastronomique 1961 edition

Food by Waverly Root

Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

Cambridge World History of Food

Peg Bracken's I Hate To Cook Book

The New Yorker's "Secret Ingredients"

Molly O'Neill's American Foodwriting

Where do I start?

Julie and Julia
Anything by Anthony Bourdain
The Fattening of America
Fast Food Nation
Fatland (can you sense a theme?)
The Warmest Room In the House (I just met the author on Saturday at a reading/signing...such a nice guy)
Death By Supermarket

There are so many others, that I would have to go back and look for them, but basically, if it has to do with food, I read it. I am going to have to try some of these that I haven't read yet, too! Thanks for the ideas!

I have a chikdren's book that I adore, it's by Polly Horvath - Everything on a Waffle. There's a recipe tied in to each chapter at the end of each. It's fun and cute.

Anything Peter Mayle writes (at least in referrence to Provence) is food-laden. MFK Fisher is another favorite. I pull food referrences from books all the time to write about, so almost everything is about food to me. Sad, isn't it?

I agree with @beth1: Green Eggs and Ham (and I suggest reading it while dining on the meal at iHop - they are serving it in conjunction with "Horton Hears a Who" - and it wasn't bad)

"Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs" is, as @AuntJone said, wonderful!

I enjoyed Laura Childs' "Tea Shop Mystery" series because I love tea and I learned a lot about the beverage throughout the stories. The stories weren't exactly nail biters, but they were good for light reading.

My SO and I are totally obsessed with food writing books. I tend to like collections of essays quite a bit since I can usually digest a few along with my lunch. I really need a bookshelf in my car for the selection of books and magazines that travel along with me. Some I love are Women Who Eat, Alone in the Kitchen w/ an Eggplant, Slice of Life, Death by Pad Thai, M.F.K. Fisher, Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell is hysterical and I loved it because she cusses a lot. Cooking for Mr.Latte by Amanda Hesser also includes wonderful recipes. Dirty Sugar Cokies by Ayun Halliday is so funny and twisted.

Some other recent favorites are:
Service Included - Phoebe Damrosch
The Sharper the Knife, the Less You Cry - Kathleen Flynn
The Tenth Muse - Judith Jones
The Devil in the Kitchen - Marco Pierre White

My husband really enjoyed Heat - Bill Buford
The Perfectionist - Rudolph Chelminski
He also tends to sit and read things like Larousse and Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking.

I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestions of Steingarten, Trillin, Reichl, Bourdain, Alan Richman, Ruhlman. All good choices. "A Meal Observed" by Andrew Todhunter relates he and his wives' meal at Michelin three-star restaurant Taillevent -course by course. It's a lovely little book with chapter after chapter of incredibly descriptive details of haute cuisine and their dining experience in one wonderful night of excess in Paris.

You should probably add Michael Pollan's two books to the list:
In Defense of Food
The Omnivore's Dilemma

...if you haven't read them already that is.

Hillary
Chew on That

How about Silence of the Lambs? Well, there were menu suggestions in that book. Actually, I liked the subsequent book in the series better: Hannibal. A great suggestion for the preparation and serving of brains.

Now, where did I put that bottle of Chianti?

Wendell Berry's essays on food and agriculture are inspiring. He foretold the grim future of Big Ag over thirty years ago and was absolutely right. Worth a read. Also diving into Raj Patel's Stuffed and Starved on world food issues.

I really enjoyed The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber. Enjoyable memoir reading that's perfect if you like reading before bed (or only get to make time then!)

I was hoping someone would mention Kurlansky, thanks lo82070!

Jefferey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything
Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking and More Home Cooking

and American Food Writing: An Anthology: With Classic Recipes
a fun collection of essays or excerpts from everyone from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Meriwether Lewis to Alice B Toklas. A really fun book.

I've read and enjoyed quiet a few of the ones mentioned. I also enjoy culinary mysteries. Tamar Myers writes a funny series, Penn Dutch culinary mysteries. I've also heard Cooking for Mr. Latte is a good book and it's on my to read list.

Like Water For Chocolate comes to mind but that was a novel and there are indeed a few recipes sprinkled throughout.

Any suggestions for food related fiction?