It’s world ice-cream day on July 20, 2025, which feels like the right time to celebrate one of history’s most unexpected sweet tooths: Sergei Rachmaninoff, and his favourite dessert, the cherry malted milk float.

“If I can’t drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.” Brewing up a storm, J. S. Bach’s “Coffee Cantata” - a tale of one woman’s undying love for coffee - reveals how cups of coffee became the center of bold feminist rebellion in 1730s Leipzig.