This is what Google’s documentation says:
“Other structured data features can link to pages with ProfilePage markup too. For example, Article and Recipe structured data have authors…”
It seems like the ProfilePage markup is underused in the recipe blogger space, not sure why. For example, the Serious Eats profile page for recipe writer J. Kenji López-Alt has ProfilePage structured data markup on his profile page and Google appears to reward that markup with an enhanced listing for his Serious Eats profile page.
Screenshot Of Serious Eats ProfilePage Markup
Screenshot Of Rich Results For Profile Page
Another Screenshot
The above two screenshots are of rich results for the profile pages of recipe authors, pages that use the ProfilePage structured data markup.
Read Google’s updated ProfilePage documentation:
Profile page (ProfilePage) structured data
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