[Jeff_in_Dayton]

I can understand why Cleveland would outpace Phoenix.

Cleveland is an old neighborhood city, where is probably a local tradition or custom of local food purveyors like bakers/pastry shops, butchers, and so forth.

So I think this might be a good ranking of citys that might have either a strong culinary interest in artisan baking, big citys of any type, and citys with a strong tradition of neighborhood bakeries (even if these might be in the suburbs now).