As soon as I read about that NY Times/Jim Lahey no-knead bread, I thought - what would Brother Juniper say? Peter Reinhart, also known as Brother Juniper, is a bread baking maven, teacher and prolific author. I worked with him when he was at the California Culinary Academy, (I was a lowly staff person, not a chef mind you!) and I took a demonstration class he gave on poolish, biga and other slow-rise breads.
When I only had one child, I had time to mess around with Reinhart's recipes, which were tasty and wonderful but took plenty of planning and attention. Now I have two kids and they keep me busy -too busy to bother with a two- or three-day bread process. (okay, there's grad school too, my other excuse)
Well, out of curiousity I googled Brother Juniper and found his weblog: