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YumUniverse.com is all about making informed, healthy food choices without compromising taste. We love getting the word out! We are grateful to these talented and inspiring bloggers, websites and magazines for helping to pass on info to people who care about their health (and those who aren’t far behind). Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Praise the Gourd: An Underground Vegan Supper Club
“Developed by health guru Heather Crosby (YumUniverse) and chef Valerie Bolon, the roving resto debunks the myth that vegetarian/vegan food isn’t filling — or, for that matter, delicious..”
The YumUniverse Dinnerbell Meal Pickup
The last time you heard a dinner bell, you were picking ants on a log out of your braces. After years of wooing readers with tasty plant-based recipes, YumUniverse founder/healthy living guru Heather Crosby now prepares good-for-you meals to be picked up at a secret location…
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Behold The Most Clicked Stories of 2010: The Nutrition Trends You Fell Hard for This Year
“Even carnivores swooned for the vegan recipe site YumUniverse.”
In the list of 5 VJ Reader’s Choices with Oprah’s favorite treat and BluePrint Cleanse! Honored.
Vital Spy: This rising star of conscious cuisine shares her healthy secrets
We think Heather Crosby’s hip recipe site YumUniverse and the 24 Carrot Supper Club, [her] underground vegan and gluten-free dinner party…make her the coolest …clean eating” advocate in Chicago.
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YumUniverse’s Heather Crosby is a Veggie Virtuoso
Heather Crosby is a 2010 Editor’s Pick: Illinois Meetings & Events Magazine
“For designer and artist Heather Crosby, developing original recipes and cooking with unique foods is just one more way to explore her creative life. So after a career-inspiring road trip, YumUniverse was born with recipes and ideas for making healthy eating tasty and attainable”.
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With a Big Bang, The YumUniverse is Born
“Late Thursday witnessed the launch of YumUniverse, a website of recipes and guidance for those who aspire to live a vegan, raw life. Founder Heather Crosby is in the captain’s chair for this new enterprise…”
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YumUniverse’s Heather Crosby preaches plant-based eating
“Heather Crosby, founder of YumUniverse.com is one of Chicago’s freshest and most innovative forces on the food scene…”
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Shamsub: Making a Healthy Version of the Shamrock Shake
“Heather is an amazing photographer and a food genius. She truly inspires me in the kitchen and is a constant reminder that healthy, clean (gluten-free, vegan and raw) food can be as decadent and delicious as any heavy meat dish you’d find at a fancy restaurant.”
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Thriving on a Vegan Diet w/Heather Crosby
As I mentioned in previous blogs, I’m doing the Thrive in 30 vegan diet challenge with a group of friends. This week’s spotlight is on professional badass Heather Crosby…
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Shamrock Shake Substitute: Vegan and Raw Alternative to Minty McDonald’s Treat
“Yup. McDonald’s should definitely go get themselves together. This [ShamWow Shake] is pretty damn good, I have to tell you.”
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“A trio of summery recipes (including one for raw almond carrot pate!)”
6/23/2010
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Multiple image postings including: Creamy Millet and Kale Salad, Raw Blueberry Jam, Raw Salty Sweet Kale Chips, Raw Fresh Mint Ice Cream, Gluten-Free Pie Crust Cookies, Raw Cacao Pudding, Amaranth Hemp Protein Poppers, Gluten-Free Vegan Vegetable Lasagna, Raw, Dairy-Free Soy-Free Strawberry Swirl Ice Cream…
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PHOTOGRAZING: multiple image postings including: Raw, Dairy-Free Soy-Free Strawberry Swirl Ice Cream, Gluten-Free Pie Crust Cookies, Gluten-Free Vegan Vegetable Lasagna, Amaranth Hemp Protein Poppers, Vegan Chocolate Crunch Bars…
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“Staying healthy and partying are hardly mutually exclusive these days. Acai cocktail anyone? Stop by Pilsen this evening for the launch of Heather Crosby’s new site YumUniverse.” d
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““Heather not only has great ideas but she is the master of controlled and elegant execution.”
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Other Fun Mentions:
PureMamas: GREAT IDEA:: Coconut H2O Ice Cubes?
7/15/2010
Craft Gossip: Edible Crafts: Vegan Pie Crust Cut-Out Cookies
“These will definitely be bookmarked for my next vegan pot luck.”
7/03/2010
EarthMother In the Raw: Ooooooh, Baby it’s Blueberry Season
“I felt like I hit the lottery recently when I discovered YumUniverse™. It’s definitely one of my new favorite haunts in cyberspace. Lots of fab food porn to explore, and these Mini Blueberry Cheesecakes and Blueberry Hemp Milk ought to keep your inner voyeur happy for awhile.”
6/16/2010
Happy Foody: YumUniverse
“I love when I stumble across a new fabulous foody website!”
6/07/2010
My Real Food Life: Dairy-Free Soy-Free Ricotta
“Check this out—Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Raw Ricotta cheese! The possibilities are endless with this! I see Cannoli. And Ravioli. And Lasagna! O.M.G. this woman is my new hero…”
6/14/2010

















