No-Knead Bread

Last fall, after probably the 10th person in as many weeks asked me if I'd tried Jim Lahey's no-knead homemade bread yet, I finally decided to give it a go. I had never made my own bread before -- in my mind bakers were as different a species from cooks as chemists were -- which was probably why I had avoided it as long as I did. But the hardest thing a…