This reminded me of an older series of "Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World". I had to look it up and submitted it here [1]
Also, the author has more series on her website [2]. One is called "The Heavens" about tax havens. One is called "Fathers" it is about fathers (as a father myself, I enjoyed it). There's one about "couchsurfers" (does not interest me, YMMV) and there's the one already linked.