Tarte Tatin

Along the drive from Beaune to the Woodland House, there’s a turnoff to the tiny cliffside town of Orches, which is renowned for its apples. Each time we visit the Beaune market in the fall, we buy a variety of Orches apples and use the firmest types to make a tarte Tatin. Legend holds that this famous French apple tart was created when a baker, Stéphanie Tatin, accidentally forgot to position the bottom crust of a double-crusted apple tart in the pan before adding the apples, and sh