A sliced, flavored cheese product and methods of flavoring cheese is disclosed in which individual slices of cheese are separated by an interleaf paper barrier that includes a flavoring component, such as smoke flavor, applied to at least one of the two surfaces thereof. By placing each cheese slice in contact with the flavored interleaf paper, and packaging the cheese slices in a conventional manner, the cheese slices therein are imparted with the flavoring component, thereby providing a flavored cheese slice. A variety of different types of cheeses can be flavored with the methods of flavoring cheese of the present invention.