For Raffa, change is good

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It’s hard to imagine easygoing, California-born and Hawaii-raised Joe Raffa doing anything except cooking.

An admitted “fanatical cook,” the chef at the flashy new Oyamel restaurant in Penn Quarter comes to this profession quite naturally, considering that even at the age of 12 he was making dinner for his mom.

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