Estefan Kitchen

Pop stars need to eat too-and as it turns out, some of them really know how to get around the kitchen. Gloria Estefan, along with her Grammy-winning record producer husband Emilio Estefan, have opened up their Cuban recipe box in a newly released cookbook Estefan Kitchen (Celebra, 2009, $27.95). It is filled with more than 60 recipes from their restaurants, Larios on the Beach and Bongo's Cuban Café, in Miami Beach and Orlando, Fla., and Mexico, as well as recipes from their home kitchen.

Although music is the family business today, cooking runs in Estefan's lineage. Her great-grandfather served as the chef for two Cuban presidents, while her paternal grandfather managed one of the first Cuban restaurants in Miami. Meanwhile, her grandmother, Consuelo Garcia, shortly after arriving from Cuba in the 1960s, started a business serving homemade pan con lechon (roasted pork) sandwiches, ham croquettes and tamales to little leaguers at a park in Miami, which became a lucrative income for her family.

From savory tapas and easy-to-make individual and family-style entrées to scrumptious desserts and signature cocktails, Estefan Kitchen covers complete menus that will bring a bit of old Havana into everyone's home, along with anecdotes and stories told by Emilio and Gloria.