Charles Davis Feb 14, 2017:

Capitals or not It depends. As Neil has said, you would normally only capitalise an expression like this when it's a heading. It's not a proper name, so there's no inherent reason to capitalise it, any more than any other job or profession. In Spanish it's quite common to capitalise words just to make them seem important or draw attention to them. This is less common in English, and in formal writing it shouldn't be done. However, it is done sometimes, and in a commercial/marketing context there is some discretion here. It's not out of the question to capitalise Master Ham Carver (or just Master Carver, if you prefer, if the context already makes it clear we're talking about ham), if you want to highlight it.