Raymond Blanc's apple tarte tatin

I cannot believe it worked for me

I once sat next to Raymond Blanc at a dinner and he was the most charming and kindest man I’ve ever met. “I started my career in a tiny restaurant and I was in charge of keeping the glasses clean,” he told me (assume your own outrageous French accent for this.) “And those glasses were the cleanest glasses in the whole of France. I was the best at cleaning glasses. The. Best.” He’s probably told this story a thousand times. More. But he got it out for me anyway. His point being that in order to be Raymond Blanc, you have to be a details person.

And yet! I am not a details person and find all his recipes are so easy - they always work. Like this apple tarte tatin. I ate one recently in a restaurant and was reminded how nice they are and I urgently wanted to make one at home.