2016 has been an eventful year for the POMEDOR project - especially with its final conference and "Byzantine" banquet, some memories of which may be found here on the POMEDOR website.

It was also officially the last year of the project. But I was happy to hear that a new one, on food and foodways in the Crusader period, is starting in Israel, with participants who met at the POMEDOR conference in Lyon.

Stimulating further research was one of our aims, and I will be glad to hear about other initiatives, and to build up new projects of course!

Furthemore, the POMEDOR website will remain at the disposal of all registered members to post any relevant information, paper, etc. (for the latest paper on Byzantine amphorae, including a downloadable 3D model, see here).

For those who did not register yet, you may easily do so here.

The POMEDOR conference proceedings are smoothly moving forward, and I would like to thank warmly all the contributors for their reactivity. 

The good news is that we will have a full-colour volume, so those who sent black and white versions of colour figures may still send the latter. The "making-of" of the "Byzantine" dinner and some of its recipes will also be included, thanks to Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger.

In the meantime, I hope to have the podcasts of the communications online in the near future.

I am looking forward to our next projects and meetings and, last but not least, very best wishes for a peaceful, fruitful, joyful 2017!

Yona Waksman