Each week for the past two months, Cleveland food truck fans -- and even those who aren't -- ardently followed Chris Hodgson on the Food Network's "Great Food Truck Race." During the show, the local chef competed against other national food truck operators for the grand prize of $100,000.

Hodgson, as we all know by now, made it all the way to the final episode. His truck, Hodge Podge, as we also know by now, was bested by Lime Truck.

In this item on the USA Today blog Pop Candy, writer Whitney Matheson says that she was particularly moved by Hodgson's class up to and including the very end.

"I thought it was particularly moving when chef Chris Hodge (sic) noted that, because of the competition, 'Me and my sister got closer, me and my girlfriend got closer -- (and that's) the greatest win of my life.'"

Read it all here.