No-Knead Bread, act two

For many of us, 2007 has been the year of baking bread, in part because just about a year ago we learned a new, easy way to do it. When Mark Bittman of the New York Times reported on Jim Lahey's No-Knead Bread recipe, latent bread-bakers around the country went nuts. While many of us were content with the simple pleasure of the standard recipe, gifted cooks began creating variations on the theme.