Meet Alivia Murdoch
Alivia is a chef and sommelier currently working out of Miami, Florida. Hospitality to her means providing spaces for people to gather, create loving memories, and allow themselves to be taken care of. She loves to cook as well as host experiences that are lively and rhythmic.
Alivia has worked professionally in Bermuda, Denver & Winter Park, Colorado, St. Petersburg, Florida and now currently Miami Beach. During that time she focused her passion in both the culinary arts as well as event management, becoming a sommelier, and managing high-end dinner service. Her work experience has intentionally been all across the board: working with various cuisines, as well as being both a front-of-house and back-of-house employee. She has fulfilled most roles in a restaurant including: bartender, service manager/server, sommelier, host, cooking instructor, and chef de partie.
aliviaamurdoch7@gmail.com
“I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun, consuming and digesting. Under the thatched arbor of a restaurant on a river-bank, where Olivia had waited for me, our teeth began to move slowly, with equal rhythm, and our eyes stared into each other's with the intensity of serpents'—serpents concentrated in the ecstasy of swallowing each other in turn, as we were aware, in our turn, of being swallowed by the serpent that digests us all, assimilated ceaselessly in the process of ingestion and digestion, in the universal cannibalism that leaves its imprint on every amorous relationship and erases the lines between our bodies and sopa de frijoles, huachinango a la vera cru-zana, and enchiladas.”
― Italo Calvino, Under The Jaguar Sun