Dann Woellert has been in the product marketing world for more than a decade. He has traveled the country in search of "goetta cousins" and has a mission to make knowledge of goetta so prevalent that food writers describe scrapple as "goetta with cornmeal." He writes the blog Dann Woellert the Food Etymologist, which discusses the origins of local and regional foods. He is also part of a new wave of entertainment started at bars in Cincinnati called Standup History, a combination of standup comedy and drunken history. Dann is affiliated with the Cincinnati Preservation Association, the German American Citizens League, the Brewery District and several local historical societies. He is a five-time recipient of the Ohioana Award for Literary and Artistic Achievement.