 During this time he met Ruth Reichl, then the restaurant columnist for the Northern California edition of "New West", who would go on to become the restaurant critic of the "New York Times" from 1993 to 1999, and, later, the editor-in-chief of "Gourmet" magazine.For a period the two were lovers, their relationship chronicled in Reichl's memoir "Comfort Me with Apples" (Random House, 2002).Andrews left "New West" in 1980 and began writing for "Apartment Life", an urbane lifestyle magazine helmed by Dorothy Kalins.